Wii HW sales had dried up by 2012 solely because software had virtually ceased. Wii was the best selling console of 2010, the end of which would see its last major first party title (DKC Returns) until Zelda:SS eleven months later, after which no big first party titles came out at all. Had there been no Wii U and the Wii's schedule throughout 2011-2014 had been peppered with titles like NSMBW2, Pikmin 3, Nintendoland (Wiimote based), Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Wii Edition), another Mario Kart, Super Mario 3D World, Splatoon (Wiimote based) etc., then two better things would have happened for Nintendo: those titles would have sold a lot more, and the decline of Wii hardware sales would have been slowed so considerably that they would surely have sold a lot more Wiis in those years than they managed to sell Wii Us. Nintendo kissed goodbye to a lot of profit by ditching the massive install base the Wii had and manufacturing an expensive and ultimately unpopular (commercially) successor.
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