Nintendo is expanding, of course. A whole new development center next year in Kyoto, as well as a new team for EAD Tokyo, from last i heard.

Now if you think about it, their best consoles have been their handheld consoles. I play my 3DS more then the Wii and Wii U. This may sound unrealistic but I say drop the consoles and stick with the handheld consoles.

Ridiculous, Nintendo throughout their time in the video game industry has supported two or more devices at different times.

Say what you will about the N64 and GC but they received a good amount of support and games from at least Nintendo, while Nintendo supported their portable brethren.

The current problem stems from mismanagement of resources for software development. Nintendo landed on a gold mine with the Wii but when the mine dried out, they didn't adapt fast enough to keep the Wii active. With the Wii U they tried to do the same techniques that got them the Wii's success but failed to take into account the land they were at isn't that fresh or untapped.

You have to blame the leadership because we've seen in previous generations Nintendo create software that grabbed consumers to their hardware but with the Wii U, they have fallen unprepared for actually supporting their own device and that is what we are seeing. Their should be a new different exclusive release every month and a half for the console's first 6 to 7 months to mold the Wii U audience but instead Nintendo rested on their laurels and ports and are now suffering.

its just the change to HD development, and Nintendo is very cautious with the money they spend, the change will be slow but steady, and as they stated themselves, theyre nearly in the final stage...

Wii and DS saw amazing support at the same time. I call bullshit.

I agree, the Wii support towards the end of it's life was laughable, 3DS is getting really good support, but that's in part because of all the great eastern third party it's getting.

Nintendo needs more devs, either make them, and buy them. This is the most ridiculous drought for Nintendo home consoles ever. Wii's last 2 years, and Wii U's first. 3 year drought.

I don't understand why they're still so small. They could easily buy some of these failing companies and send them to work on their games. All the cash they made from Wii and ds should have allowed them to do this. The whole thing that they have to pull people from games they were working on the help finish Mario kart 7 was ridiculous. That should never happen with a company as financially strong as Nintendo.

They have 10B$ in cash and that excludes the toilets! ;)

Does the DS and Wii ring any bells? Nintendo handled that perfectly because 3rd party was on par with first party. That's how Nintendo needs to reduce stress. 3rd party on 3DS is stronger than Wii U at the moment because there's no true Killer App on Wii U. No 3D mario or new Zelda to show off yet. I think that they will be able to manage the Wii U and 3DS better together when the Wii U starts pulling its own weight. It's a brilliant system, Nintendo needs brilliant games in order to rectify that.

Iwata needs to take heat for this. There's no damn reason why after making billions on the Wii and DS they needed to recruit Retro to help EAD get a handheld Mario Kart game done in time (especially when the previous Mario Kart was released like 3 years prior). 

Nintendo is about 5 large teams short of what they actually need to have IMO.