so... 3rd parties are bitches? XD

No crystal ball required. The level of third party support is decided long before a generation even starts. There is a reason why the PS3 got such strong support even when it was flailing, and there is a reason why no third party was in a position to really capitalize on the Wii's surpising success. It's all down to how invested they are before launch, and publishers are investing in the PS4/Xbone and not the Wii U. If you think that will have changed a year from now, you frankly don't understand how video game development works.

It doesn't take a fortune teller, a genius, or a "hater" to figure this shit out.

The Wii-U is so dead in so many ways, Itchy and Scratchy called it for some fresh death ideas to use in their next skit. It's so dead, it makes Kenny from South Park blush like a school girl. The nearly 7 year old PS3 outsold it almost 6-1 last week. AGAIN. Yeah, things are looking great for the Wii-U. It's getting outsold by EVERYTHING, and there is no way the small, uninspired Wii-U holiday line-up is going to pull it out of it's death spiral into commercial irrelevance. Of course, the PS4/Xbox One launches only compound the Wii-U's problems. Sorry.

No, most of Nintendo's consoles will show that they are in a league of their own. The gameboy showed that, the NES showed that, the Wii did too. Sega was the only one to truly compete with Nintendo in that segment of the industry and even then. Sony only managed to beat Nintendo in the mainstream due to good hardware design and marketing, they tapped into the mainstream. But when it comes to games Nintendo are untoucheable and so they have a market all to themselves that Sony and MS will have a lot of difficulty reaching and it will be like that for a long time.

remember when the PS3 was dead in 2006?

Your reasoning is dead. You're pursuing the kind of obvious logic that led to no intelligence and proper prediction in the past, why would it work now.

The 3DS was dead, the PS3 was dead, the NDS was dead, the Wii was DEAD. There are cases where Nintendo were dead but there were many where they weren't. The U is one of those for 1million and 1 reasons. The U takes cues from the 3DS. It will do fine, so long as that course is kept.

Most 3rd parties don't matter. Only a select few, and typically those that focus on very different games than most here assume.

Games like Etrian Odyssee and Monstre Hunter and exclusive REs make Nintendo's consoles (mostly in Japan), not multiplats, and certainly not EA games.

So the companies that do that don't matter.

@MohammadBadir. Not even close to being the same situation. You're comparing apples to nipples.

Remember when the PS3 was selling 60k a week in June 2006 at $599 while Wii-U is selling just over 20k at half the price?

That is truly the only concern. However in the past Nintendo did not do a good job at leading by example. With the U, Nintendo is pumping out games quickly with high entertainment value, much like they are doing for the 3DS, and games of very similar type of content. The only risk is that 3rd parties don't get the cue, but I really doubt Capcom and Atlus won't.

But like you say we've seen it in the past, with its reasons, so the risk exists. I give it a 50-50 chance of likelihood, due to the WiiU's mixed direction at launch. So long as Nintendo continues to drive entertainment first for the birthing years of the console, that risk should be quelled. *fingers crossed*

They can always drive higher-production games when they've secured a proper install base for themselves and for 3rd parties. All in its time.