I already said, there's a whole december ahead. the predecessors were already in the holidays when they launched. plus, a bigger base should make the legs somewhat bigger too.

I don't think Ubi, Warner and Acti will quit on WiiU, unless those games start selling under 100k.

But these are the only franchises WiiU will get

Acti - COD/Skylanders
Ubi - Just Dance/Rayman
Warner - Batman/Lego

There are going to be dry months in the year when WiiU isn't even going to have a retail game release (unless it's something very low key like Cabala Hunting or w/e)

Agree to disagree then and we shall wait and see!

Is the small install base I guess, and the fact that One and PS4 are more impressive graphically speaking.

Pretty sure it would've gotten more sales if people even knew it existed. Sure not as much as the other versions but it would've had more than it has now.

I have some theories. First, 1/3 of wiiu userbase is inactive. Problably a child's present that not get used since last december. They just don't bother to use it again neither sell it. They problably forgot and regret the buy, so not lookinh foward for any game on it, even 1st party/exclusive.

Then another 60% areadly own another plattaform where third party games:
can be found in any store easilly all year
are not tied to the system, so is easier to buy it without worries
all their friend are playng there, so they will buy it to play online with friend too
Not lacking dlcs or content
Actually is on online store(activion games and ea are not avaible on eshop)
Is cheaper
better port than the one on wiiu
know that game is coming for then(wiiu logo trailer only found on eshop most of the times)

These category problably will only buy exclusive once in a while and use another console most of the time. Or, if the game make a great use of gamepad(good is not enough). They don't give up yet, just dont care about 3rd games on the machine.

Then you have the 10%, that actually want to use wiiu as a primary machine. But is so hard to find and be satisfied with the games that is near impossible, yet, when half of these player actually buy the game, it only sell 150k LTD.

There is no simple solution, thirds areadly are burned, consumers are burned too. Yet, i still think there is no use on trying to get thirds onboard, because they never support properly, and then say that its nintendo fans fault. 3DS rised as the best console of 2013 because nintendo and nitnendo only, so they must go the same way with wiiu. Third party will aways be on pc anyway, where is cheaper to get any game. While indies support the wiiu, i will be ok.

Please at the time PS3 was selling so shit that it looked like Wii would have 70% market share. So they did have a choice but chose to stay with trandition then explore the option of motion controls.  Try playing God Father and Resident Evil 4. Two ports early on put the most that followed to shame.

there is a lack of compelling 3rd party software on WiiU =P
seriously though look at the games that sell well, it dosent matter if its 1st or 3rd party. its all about quality exclusives.
As you can see games like ZombiU, MonHun, Lego City, Pikmin and Mario all did very well.

Wiiu gets 3rd party and they sell like shit