"We’ve found out today that the creative lead of the original Saints Row for the Xbox 360 was working with Nintendo to produce a game for the Wii U. However, the game was cancelled one day before production started. It’s unclear why the game was cancelled, but it sounds as though Nintendo wasn’t happy with it."

http://mynintendonews.com/2015/02/25/creative-lead-of-saints-row-was-apparently-working-on-a-wii-u-game-with-nintendo-but-was-cancelled/

Teachers convention or another holiday?

I dislike how retailers are getting exclusive items... very annoying that you can only get said item in a specific store.

I think Nintendo is focusing a lot on getting Japanese devs on their side. Like Koei, Namco and Capcom.

Also, Target is pulling out of Canada, so their exclusives are up in the air right now, makes it even harder to get... I think I heard that Best Buy/Future Shop is selling them, but I'm not sure.

After Sonic Boom, Nintendo should be really careful when making these deals...

Can nintendo just pay for a western 3rd party exclusive
like saints row, fallout, or something?

^That would be a lot of meltdowns and houndreds millions of dollars

I really don't think that Nintendo should start buying exclusives... This won't help the Wii U at all

For a game of that size, exclussive is likely out of the question.  Now could they try and pay for support?  Maybe.  But that depends on the developer.  As for smaller western game franchises, they could.  Don't know what effect it would have.  Funding more new IP from western devs, especially large devs, would be another option. 

If Nintendo can just get Japanese 3rd parties on their side, that would be great. They already have Platinum and Koei Tecmo (for the most part), now they just need Capcom, Konami and Squeenix.

I'm sure Nintendo could convince Squeenix to make a smaller-scale Bravely-type game for the Wii U. And porting games like Revelations 2 or MH4U to the Wii U surely isn't a difficult task.