Actually the Wii U has great western 3rd party support if you exclude EA, which is slowly dying. Plus not only is the Wii U getting the same games as the PS3/360 which Microsoft makes sure it comes out on PC for more cash in Microsoft's pocket, but e Wii U is actually getting western exclusives like ZombiU 1 & 2 & Wonderful 101 & Lego City Undercover & Bayonetta 2 & so fort, while the PS3 shares its once exclusives with Microsoft.

The problem is that it doesn't have system sellers for the Wii U yet. Wario will help this June but it needs Wonderful 101 and way more importantly Pikmin 3 which will sale the Hardware big time, and then there's the Fall games finishing the job with Mario Kart & more Mario (people still play platformers) & other games this Fall to sale the system like Wii Fit U & so fort.

The general public does not know and this is a big problem, but once the games come out Nintendo will advertise on TV and many other places for their games like Pikmin 3 & Mario & so fort.

So Nintendo's problem with Wii U is not letting the general public know and software, but until Nintendo gets the system sellers on the Wii U they will have no reason to advertise when the software is not there, but once the software comes out they will have every reason to advertise and do so. They don't want to lose the general public they have now, so ey will wait for Pikmin 3 to advertise it, and they will wait for Wii Fit U & Mario to advertise those. Nintendo cares about trust with the general public too.

Plus Nintendo also relies on selling enou Hardware so they don't have to advertise almost at all anymore, like they said about the 3DS once it sold 8 or so million, they felt the user base was enough to spread the word with no money spent and they where right. Of course they still advertise system sellers.

Long story short, too late; Nintendo is doing the exact same strategy with the Wii U that they did with the 3DS but without the need for price cut, which means they learned more than they have been telling people.

I think the end of August will show us how great the Wii U sales can do without Mario.

The Wii U gets the high end graphics western games like the PS3/360 and it gets some western exclusives which is more rare for the PS3 & 360 these days.

I'm curious to see what happens with "Killer Freaks from Outer Space" if Ubisoft ever figures out a better way to make the game, because so far it plays like a weaker version of ZombiU 1 & 2.

Here is a better question what position would Microsoft and Sony be in if they had the same 3rd party support as Nintendo?

So I don't think they have lost touch with N America but rather don't have enough support from 3rd party to give consumers a reason to make a Nintendo their primary console.

Like Mass Effect & Bioshock & etc.

The problem is that none of these quality titles is exclusives. 

The PS2 use to have a lot of exclusives but now the PS3 shares with 360 and the 360 is Microsoft's way to bring them to the PC.

The 3DS is sadly the only system getting any exclusives from 3rd party Devs at a major amount. Plus the Japnese Devs have been making a lot of new IPs just for the 3DS. I'm looking forward to some of these like bravely default & beyond the labyrinth & Youkai watch & project X zone & kokuga, but that's my personal taste.

The 3DS is clearly getting more better treatment then the DS, let alone DS successor could ever hope for, and the only thing different is the 3D. otherwise it functions the same as the DS with the same old upgrade in graphics every new gen system gets automatically. Monster Hunter 4 should look amazing after I have seen Monster Hunter 3 definitve version on the 3DS via demo from eShop.

For once we agree on something

Wow.. 130k a week is poor? What is wrong with you people?

The PS2 has still sold more then the PS3 & 360. Same goes for the Wii which is still ahead by around 25 million.

The PS3 & 360 won't sale as much in lifetime sales then the Wii & PS2.

The reason why ticket sales are still low from 11 years ago is because of bootlegs (as shown in Seinfeld LOL) & recently streaming via Netflix & Hulu plus & etc. The only reason people have to go to theaters when they can stream the 2D movies online and download the bootlegs is because there is now 3D movies that you won't be able to view in 3D online yet. Cable lost sales to Netflix as well and to a smaller extent the other streaming providers. And the ticket price of 3D movies is going down while the price of 2D movies is going up to match dead even later this year in theaters.

The sales of 2D HD TVs have drop fast which has drag the TV market down, but 3D TVs sales are up higher & higher these days. So that just shows that no one wants HD is all.

And the moderate at best software sales of the Wii is what I mean, because 3rd party Devs still continue to make new games exclusively for the Wii despite the Wii having nothing but bad to moderate software sales thruout its lifespam and the GameCube before it as well in software sales. The PS3 & 360 have been sharing their games with each other and the PC & Wii U.

Batman was successful and so was spider-man so of course they got reboots easily. But Superman has been going down hill since Superman 3 let alone 4 & 5(Returns). The Superman reboot is way to risky for any studio to touch with a 50 foot poll, so to take a chance on that would mean they would need something more then just a good script to expect a profit in box office sales. But you clearly don't know what it's like for Hollywood to even consider making reboots of movies that did poorly in the box office like DareDevil & super Mario bros., and ey are making a Super Mario Bros. 2 as Jon Hamm mention on Jimmy Kimmel Live when he revealed that he went for the casting call to play Luigi but got turn down.

And I was talking about the 3DS not sharing games like monster hunter 4 & kingdom hearts 3D, while the HD consoles get low quality games like resident evil 6 & FF13 and they aren't even exclusives and they have such poor quality.

Unlike Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft actually take developers seriously and cater to their wants and needs when designing their hardware, so it's a moot point. Their system isn't about them, it's about the market at large and how to be THE system.

Sometimes I get the feeling Nintendo doesn't want any serious competition on their own consoles, otherwise I just can't make sense of it.

Regardless, as far as on topic goes, North Americans will buy the Wii U in droves for the next Mario Kart, they will buy it in droves for the next Smash Bros, and I think it will do absolutely amazing at the end of this year and into the next... But after that, I really think it's pretty much done sales wise, I really don't see it having the legs the 360 and PS3 had for instance, and beyond those two titles, without serious 3rd party of something like Wii Sports that they already failed to achieve,  I don't see anything but price cut after price cut seriously pushing systems.

Yes, people will buy the next Zelda, and the next Metroid, and the next 3D Mario in the millions, sure, but I don't think any of those will sell systems to people that Smash didn't already sell to. At least for the most part. Seeing mid thirty million lifetime.

I'm assuming you mean, "no one wants HD [at] all". If so, I find this statement hard to believe. First of all from what I have read recently 3D is unpopular due to lack of content and discomfort with the technology. Second, even if 3D TVs are selling they are still HD and the 3D feature may go unused. The few people I know who have 3D TVs never use the 3D feature. While you're first statement may be true, the second one is quite a long stretch. 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/09/29/3d-tv-viewership-rate/1602741/

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-admits-3d-tv-demand-underwhelming-13222753/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57329573-17/3dtv-sales-rise-but-do-owners-care-about-the-third-dimension/

A month. It's sub 130k either way, 360 was 130k.

Thank you for this post