Clearly Nintendo is doing something right if they can release a console that overall performs worse than the last generation of their competitor's with a horribly over-sized controller with poor layout and short battery life and practically no third party support and still sell close to 10m at mainly a premium price above 360 and PS3.
If you accept just how weak and poor the wii u is it then shows the Nintendo brand is still very powerful. However the wii u has done some serious damage to that reputation.
I honestly think Nintendo could recover but I have this horrible fear they are going to bring some nasty under-powered monstrosity to market with an inflated price that will be the final nail in the coffin.
Much of what Nintendo need to do is obvious. At the end of the day they have to create a very appealing product, they have the software resources and technology (thanks to AMD) to do so. They need a charm offensive with third party publishers and need to come out fighting with their next product with improved online support.
Their next home console should be something that gets them right back into the core of the game industry.
