I dont think he refers to only the wii, the ip has been exposed to handhelds and 360 with realy close yearly releases.

Why would you want Wii U to bomb? That would be terrible for the industry. Even as primarily a Nintendo fan, I still want Sony and Microsoft's consoles to do well, even the Vita. Especially the Vita. The death of Sega in the hardware market was bad enough; the death of Nintendo would be catastrophic. That whole "casual" market that bought into Wii -- if they don't buy into Wii U, they're definitely not going to buy into PS4 or 720. If Wii U only sells 10 mil, Sony and Microsoft's consoles would have to sell a combined ~220 mil to have growth in the industry. Each of them would have to outsell the PS1 or the Wii! It's not happening. The market would decline, investors would pull their funds, Sony and Microsoft's gaming divisions would be in serious trouble, even if they both managed 80 mil or so hardware sales.

Thankfully, Nintendo is going to sell way more than 10 million Wii Us. Just think of it this way: every Wii U they sell takes a bit of the pressure off the PS4 and the 720 to prove that game consoles are still viable products. If the Wii U sells 40 mil, they only have to average 95 mil. If the Wii U sells 60 mil, they only have to average 85 mil between them. And so on. Much more manageable than 110 mil apiece!

Yet despite this theory, devs will still support the Playstation Vita in spite of poor hardware (and software) sales.

@Oniyide. I wasn't talking about Nintendo's core audience. Rather, I was referring to Take Two catering to Nintendo's audience and offering GTA5 to them. For example, CoD has a consumer base on the Wii, they built it. Take Two, refraining to do the same, are shooting themselves in the foot. Reason being, whether things improve from the Wii, or worst case remain the same, there is a potential for 1M+ sales of GTA on the Wii line, on that can be built to more numbers. That's what I was referring to.

You know my stance on the Nintendo/3rd party who's to blame issue, and you know I agree with you. So above was aimed at TTWO and how they are not building a market of their own for the GTA franchise on the Wii line, as Ubi and Acti are doing.

HTH

Possibly. Considering this is a low-risk endeavor (we know from the Darksiders guys that it's very easy to port a 360 version to Wii U, codewise) what else could it be? Unless they assume their audience is so petty as to disparage them for simply putting core games on Wii U in the first place, but Take Two has some clear problem with Nintendo even moreso than other third parties.

Exactly.  I count three in Wii, two on DS, one on Kinect, and one on 3DS.  Plus, for the wii, three is reaching the saturation point.

Give me a few months because I believe it really depends if Sony and/or MS have anything to show prior to the WiiU launch

So there are actually companies that hate money... who would have thought...