At least I was able to transfer all my Wii shop games from my Wii to Wii U day one with no extra charge.  Also, people don't buy Nintendo systems for third party games.  People buy Nintendo systems for Nintendo games.

Nintendo would make more money if they could also sell plenty of third party games. Wouldn't the Wii U be in a better position if all the third party games went there as well? Why give publishers more reasons not to go there? Also, people are already annoyed with the Wii U getting bad versions of games. This would be yet another mark against the Nintendo version of a game.

That's a pretty awesome piece, perfectly fitting into the category of "It's funny, because it's true."

You totally missed the point there (see underlined, above). People who want Nintendo games know where to get them, and that is the ecosystem maintained BY Nintendo. If it was such a great idea for the company to abandon that, it would have happened already.

The president of the company has even explained that much.

Expanding an ecosystem isn't abandoning it. There is nothing to stop them requiring a purchase of one of their consoles to allow you to play on other devices. They would just be adding value to people who buy into the ecosystem, something they should all be trying to do.

And the reason they haven't done it might just be because it requires a shift to digital formats. Or they are slower with these things like with their online system.

I bolded the statement so you could understand.

Many multiplat games are going to be for PC, so if you are saying "why buy a Wii U version," That's as good as saying "why buy a PS4/XB1 version" when there's PC.  Because it implies the Wii U version will be the same or worse than the PS4/XB1 versions.  When there's going to be a multiplat game for all three next-gen consoles, you can bet the Wii U version will be different.  If it isn't, then the Wii U wouldn't be fulfilling its job as a different console.  

Also, if you want to say "play games in your living room" then you don't understand that you could also play a PC in your living room.  The way you're making this argument is incomplete and makes little sense.  I also don't even see what your point is on your last paragraph, it has nothing to do with what I was saying.

The appeal of cross-platform gaming is still wholly untested, however. Why should Nintendo cannibalize their hardware environment just to go for something totally unproven (which they've already done anyway, plunking their handheld on the 3D craze and their console on the tablet craze). Especially when we all know that nothing Nintendo does will get them actual third party support, short of hostile takeovers of Sony and Microsoft.

We're retreading familiar paths now. I know you love this idea so much that you can't see how it would damage the company in the long term, IN SPITE of the fact that you have posted in threads discussing statements where the Boss Man explains why.

Iwata is very polite, especially when he would like you to understand something.

You have shown that you have no intention of understanding why this idea is terrible, and Iwata has officially expressed no intention of implementing it.

Iwata brought us the Wii U. Excuse me for not wanting to take his business advice as the final word.