I think it actually might hurt the sales of the handheld games too. But what I think they should do is that they should make an console pokemon rpg that is just like the versions, BUT the battles are like the anime battles (you controll the pokemons in a 3d arena, and use the enviroment to make the battle more strategic).

OT: I'm hoping this panic mode nintendo is a nintendo that want's to expand their studios, or buy new ones. We need more software on our consoles nintendo! 

EPIC already made it clear, and public, last year that they weren`t thinking of bringing UE 4 to Wii U.
For us this is a confirmation, but for Nintendo it`s nothing new.

This doesn`t mean that developers can`t port it over to Wii U. It is possible.
And it isn`t like Nintendo is left in the cold. Remember gamerware - which is offered for free? If CryEngine 3 is as good as UE4 then there is no really big loss. Worse, is losing EA games that come with an exclusive engine.

The size of the loss will only be acountable on the number of devs that will use it and not port it to Wii U.
With SE, Capcom and Konami devloping their own engines i think the impact of no-UE4 could be lessened.

Part of that problem is over-saturation. Iirc, people started getting fatigued of AC around Brotherhood.

The general problem with third parties is that they operate too similarly to Hollywood: once they find something big, they milk it endlessly until it runs dry. For a console maker, however, the big franchises are there to push hardware, which is why you see more restraint on Nintendo's part, because if they overuse any one franchise, it loses its ability to push the next box, likely that's partially why NSMBU doesn't have the zip of NSMBWii, because now we've had 4 NSMB games in 6 years, while the 2006 DS game was the first proper 2D Mario since Land 2 in 1992.

Though i agree with your post otherwise. If third parties are going to give Nintendo the finger, then Nintendo needs to bulk up. More money for them, less opportunity for third parties.

Panic mode will initiate if Mario Kart nor 3D Mario do anything significant in terms of sales. For now Nintendo has to be careful, but not panic mode yet.

Don't really care about Unreal Engine 4...obviously Nintendo has chosen UNITY 4 as their engine of choice. It's being funded/payed for by Nintendo for those interested in developing games for them. Besides Unity has far more indies( the future of gaming) working on their engines than UE anyways.

Both SMS and WW were great games.

isnt frostbite an EA engine? Its basically only just EA on that one, and its nothing we didnt already know.

Pokemon only sells on handhelds.

LOL....Unreal Engine 4 will be used in many many next-gen games.
Unity 4 is only for small games. It's nowhere on the same leage as UE4.

You know what kind of games use Unity as their engine? Temple Run.

Not at all. Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4 (and future projects) wont define success for the WiiU. There will be other third party releases for the console like Assassins Creed.

Lets wait till e3 and see whats coming for the holidays. If the holidays are lackluster, then sure lets bash the WiiU until then.