If the Wii U had full support from all the major 3rd parties, would it have competed with the PS4?

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I am a PlayStation gamer nowadays but in my childhood and teen years I was a huge Nintendo fan. I had all the itinerations of the Gameboy but when it came to the DS I lost interest in favour of PlayStation and essentially Grand Theft Auto.

Now the above statement is important in answering your question in that Nintendo catered to my need for video games i could sink 100s of hours and still be wanting more, but I reached a point where I needed something more engaging and in essence provocative than what Nintendo had to offer. Now lets say the Wii U had even specs with the PS4 (otherwise with current specs it simply cant recieve third party support) it still would not receive full third party support due.

This is because GTA V would not be allowed to be published on the Wii U and im doubtful as to Fallout 4 as well, but not only would the Wii U miss out on the biggest selling game so far but the utter primitive nature of its online capabilities would hinder it to such a point where games such as GTA V and Battlefield would just not be worth playing. Now there is no denying that the Wii U is a complete commercial disaster but even if it had solid third party support and better specs and even a decent online platform it would still not be anywhere near the PS4 as people no longer play Nintendo consoles for games like GTA or MGS they play it for Mario and Splatoon.

To the mainstream Nintendo has become stale and out of ideas and coupled with the excellent launch of the PS4 and Microsoft's valiant comeback there is just no place in the market for Nintendo to compete with them hence why we are seeing rumours of a portable NX and mobile Pokemon games now in order to expand their market and userbase.