That's very true. I don't see them getting out of this without making some sort of compromise, but I can't say I'm any kind of expert either.

From what I can tell, they only resorted to it in the case of the Gamecube because shipments dropped off almost completely. Last quarter, shipments of the Wii U were just short of 5x that of the Gamecube, so I don't see them so desperate yet.

That said, at what point do you think they would do this?

Also, the xbox reveal will help the Wii U IMO. I'm predicting sales to go up at least 5,000-10,000 next week.

Ofcourse Nintendo won't stop production; that's foolish. They have a large number of high quality games coming out which will likely turn the tide with regards to sales in the next few months, so why would they even consider stopping production whilst these games haven't even been released yet?

We'll be seeing the Wii U on shelves for at least another 5 years. Don't you worry about that.

It's still too early for The Return of The WiiU Is Doomed. We need to focus on trashing X1.

I agree! 3ds sales here I come!

Suspending production is not the same thing as discontinuing a product.

I guess so, but still neither of them will happen. Why would they?

Wii U seems to have been relegated to its current place, and the odds of it climbing higher are pretty small.

26,000 sales per week for 11 months would give 1.248 million units sales. Plus 4 times higher for December, will be 416,000. So 1,664,000 million unit sales per year. Over the course of 5 years that would yield 8.32 million. Just about equal to Sega Saturn and Dreamcast.

Will it climb itself miraculously to the top? No. Playstation 4 and Xbox 3 aren't even out yet. And this only launched 6 months ago. It's over. Why it failed:

1. Outdated, weak hardware. 300 GFLOPS is only about equal to Xbox 360.
2. Exorbitant pricing. $300 for a device that is not much better then Xbox 360.
3. Lack of software support. Typical of Nintendo, which wants to corner the market for itself. Ha. That didn't work out so well.
4. Vastly better products on the market - Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 are equal if not better, and have thousands of games out between the two.

It depends on how low they can drop production down to. If they get into a situation where they are producing the minimum possible and it's still well in excess of sales, then they are lossing money warehousing them all.

I have no idea what's the minimum they can produce, so it's hard to say for certain, but I doubt we'll see a suspension of production. More likely they'll stockpile for holiday season sales (taking a loss if necessary). If the holidays season proves disasterous despite whatever big games they release, then come 2014 I suspect they would suspend, or possibly cease production. If WiiU sells well over the holidays, the stockpile depletes and they just continue on.

you lost all your credibility in that statement, sorry i can't take you serious anymore.