almost every single third party is counting it out, also heard ubi will drop support soon, you expect the console to survive on zelda, mario kart and smash, when we know zelda is in a huge decline based of sky sword sales, at this point if wiiu manages gamecube numbers it would be great.

Wii U might become irrelevant, Nintendo themselves will not--especially with 3DS performing relatively strongly. So long as they don't irrevocably damage the quality of their intellectual property, then they are relevant.

Careful sir, this is a premise that the contingent who started with the N64 or later are alarmingly oblivious towards, it's painful seeing how many people are unaware that SF2 was the SNES's best selling individual game.

"but, but, you bai da nintendo console for nintendo gaemz!"

Stop bumping this dumb ass thread just to take pot shots at Nintendo by trying to be funny. Third party software matters but it also has to cater to the tastes of the gamers on a specific platform. For example Just dance franchise on Wii outsold Halo franchise on 360 and Uncharted franchise on ps3. People buy games they like, getting random ass shooter x and y on a platform that doesn't care as much about the genre is not going to help. I mention shooters because that is what third parties have been pumping out. 

I don't mind pew pew pew but that is me. If i see you online in some shooter game. You bet i'll be taking you down Mortal Kombat style but with a gun. 

Ahh damn i just bumped this crap of a thread to top of my VGChartz Buddy. *slaps self*

I wouldn't be saying it if I hadn't seen the notion thrown around in grotesque quantities elsewhere. I don't say this to be some egotistical perfectionst or whatever, nor do I really want to, but more often than not, they're too young to understand the metagame behind Nintendo's ups and downs commercially over the years. Sometimes is really is that simple. That's why Blackb0nd himself makes these videos, because of the apologists, not some weird anti-Nintendo propaganda that they wanna conjure up.

Also @ bolded...  lol.

I've been buying Nintendo consoles since 1985 and have heard this same rubbish for almost as long.  There is no handwriting on the wall and I'm a realist.  So what if the Wii U comes in last place this gen....I don't care.  They made far more in profits than Sony did during the entire time Sony had the market with the PS2.  They can weather this out too.  If Nintendo was to discountinue the Wii U, it would most likely be from pressue that their greedy shareholders put on them. 

As for your second comment, if $399 isn't much money, then go buy a Wii U too!  It's a great little machine with lots of good games.

As for consumers deciding if it's irrelevant, give it time.  The PS3 and Xbox 360 are still selling great as there are tons of great games out for them and the are priced lower.

Now, grow up, buy all the systems and stop being a hater.

If it were down to me, I'd be vouching for Yoshi's Island and Mortal Kombat II, but neither caused spikes of market share and playground cred against the Mega Drive contingent as drastically as SF2 and DKC.

"It's not about my personal feelings, it's about what's best for business."

Then it is indeed irrelevant as a console manufacturer.