I have to admit the Wii version of Underworld was not great.  Anniversary was much better.

Wii did not get the same treatment as HD and I do contend that is because no matter how much effort was put into it, people would still call  a port of an HD game a 'poor' port.

Certainly, without question, Wii didn't get the sort of multi-million dollar game investments that the HD consoles did (which makes sense in a way because it doesn't cost that much to make a non-HD game).   And a lot of the marquee 3rd party games skipped Wii completely.

Regardless of whether you consider them AAA or not, there are absolutely clear cases of developers/publishers losing money on Wii games - and cases of those same publishers making a lot of money off Wii games. 

Absolutely, most of the blame for developers going under can be laid at the feet of HD development costs.  Lair, Haze, Darksiders II and others are notorious examples.  The closest example I can think of for Wii would be Blue Tongue's De Blob 2 but that was also on HD consoles.    Or DDI - who went broke making Ninjabread Man, Anabus II and other shovelware for Wii.  That's what Deduce must have been referring too!  Poor DDI.  DAMN Wii for causing you to go bankrupt.

Yeah...Now that you mention that it has been the case :/

Didn't realise that DDI went bust, quite surprising tbh because those shovelware titles were seriously low budget efforts. Each would have made a profit after 100K sales, maybe even half that.

The Wii U got a new surge of games just this week

Lego City Undercover

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Need for Speed - Most Wanted

Walking Dead - Survival Instinct

I think a few more perhaps worse than the new Walking Dead game as well.

Ignoring the "bad" offerings, there are 3 solid new games available on the system and some less demanding gamers might end up enjoyin the "bad" offerings as well.

That makes this article basically a month late... the issue existed as long as games weren't releasing but just like the other consoles got a hefty surge of quality titles in March, so too has the Wii U.

Nintendo also has the 3DS which has been solid for a while.

Presumably, the length of those development cycle is primarily due to the type of software they are trying to create, i.e. 3D Mario, Pikmin, Zelda, etc. In other words, Gamecube-esque games, but now in HD.

While I think one of the bigger mistakes Iwata made was in not reading the tea leaves and realizing that third-party support is simply not something he should have expected, let alone relied upon, the best time to fix that problem has passed. Since that's the case, in his shoes I would seriously consider either devoting fewer resources to these Gamecube-esque titles or going on an immediate hiring spree for new talent. I would direct the talent saved/acquired in this manner to try and focus on games that are both more mainstream and less resource-intensive. I'm thinking specifically of how hit titles like the language training games, Wii Fit, and especially Brain Age.

The Iwata Asks on Brain Age is especially relevant to this train of thought: he gave a small handful of developers extremely limited time and very few resources to come up with compelling software, and as a result they threw away most of their notions of what a videogame should be and instead focused on creating something that the public would demand, but which videogames had not yet catered to. The results speak for themselves. Admittedly I expect the bulk of these games to flop, or to be minor successes at best. But even one megahit would make the endeavor worthwhile, and in light of how gaming has largely retreated once more to its limited audience, I suspect such an approach would breed more than one success, and at a fraction of the time and cost, no less. Nintendo claims the Gamepad can lead to exciting new ways to play games: thsi would be a fantastic way to prove it.

Indeed.

Also, don't forget about Dragon Quest 10, WiiU Party, Pokemon Rumble with NFC, plus multiplats like AC4, Rayman, RE Revelations, Watchogs, Disney Infinity, Skylanders, COD, Just Dance, and unannounced stuff, both 1st and 3rd party (Iwata confirmed they have unannounced WiiU games set to release this year). Oh, and wildcards like whatever Retro's working on.

It'll definitely be massive, while both Sony and MS's next systems will have a tiny library mostly consisting of unoptimized last-gen ports, games rushed to meet launch, and all the missing features, bugs and other troubles that come with a new system launch. And I suspect there'll be tons, because such things tend to increase as a system's complexity and features increase.

And all at a significantly higher price than WiiU. I think Nintendo won't need to cut its price, either. WiiU will be absolutely fine by year's end.

Do a PS3 Slim like redesign, drop the price to $199.99, release ONE SKU with Nintendoland and NSMB included. Instant success.

That would be suicidal, they'd be bleeding- no, GUSHING money at that price point.

Lets not forget that for the past couple of years the wii has lost it's shine. The wii started strong and was embraced by the masses, but eventually the fad wore off and the console was ultimately judged by gamers to be less than spectacular especially compared to its competitors.

The wii u launches and the mass market has already lost interest and the gamers, that never really embraced it, decided it just wasn't worth a purchase. I still think the wii u will do ok it just won't be what the wii was in terms of sales.