The problem with your conclusion is the 'right now' part.  If every console maker decided to stop, simply because they were losing money on a console at some point, then no one would be making consoles.  It seems 'strange' to hold Nintendo to this standard, yet ignoring that both Sony and MS have incurred losses on their consoles during each generation. 

Any company that creates a console (handheld or home) has a responsibility to support it.  If they don't, they will jeapordize any chance at securing a solid userbase on any other consoles or software that they release. 

Good point you make but at this moment in time Nintendo are leading this generation in home and handheld consoles (albeit maybe not for much longer) so the speed in which some people have written them off is wierd to me. PS3 and Vita were struggling against their rivals at the time of most of the critisism. I will be interested to see how Sony and Microsoft go from January to March when sales traditionally slow and there isnt alot of releases on the new consoles.

Being "doomed" is only important if it affects the type and quality of games available on that console. Since the Wii U has plenty of quality games, both existing and forthcoming, its "doomed" status is largely a non sequitur.

That's a fair point. I am holding Nintendo to a different standard but I do have a reason for this. I think outside of Halo, Gran Turismo, Uncharted and maybe a few others, Microsoft and Sony simply don't have IP's that are anywhere near as valuable as Nintendo's IP's. They simply don't have anything else other than control of the platforms to barter with. I genuinely believe that if SMB3DW had released on PS3/4/xbox360/X1 Nintendo would be looking at lifetime sales of at least 20mil. As it stands I think it will be lucky to do 3mil lifetime on the WiiU due to the small userbase. I do think the world wants to play Mario games on their TV screens, but $300 is a big sum just to play Nintendo games, and that's just the part the consumers pay. If the consoles are being sold at a loss then Nintendo has to fork out as well.

If I can just sum it up, I'd say it's a tragedy that such as small amount of people will be able to play Nintendo games, and that Nintendo had to bleed money to allow them to do that. It just seems wrong.

yeah what I find most "ironic" about these Doomed threads, is when it comes from "Sony fanboys"
 if there ever was a video game company that would stop making games first it would be Sony

Can I have your crystal ball please?

Just remember, EVERY new console generation is a completely clean slate. The past 8 or so years should have taught you that.

I do not want or think they are doomed I just think they would better service the populace by being third party. And never making hardware. That is neither hating,nor calling doom.

Being doomed means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

And yet despite 3 out of 4 of those consoles being so called "failures" Nintendo is still around and kicking. The original X-Box entered the console arena with only a small margin between it and the Gamecube and Microsoft soldiered on with a more successful 360. The Wii U won't doom Nintendo. I think Nintendo will seriously only bow out of the hardware market if they release multiple consoles in a row that sell sub 15 million. On third party support: The PS Vita gets more third party support than the 3DS, but the 3DS still outsells it because it has a large amount of high quality first party titles.

As for Japanese sales in the last year, which was mentioned earlier this thread. The Wii U is very comparable to the first year of the PS3 and PS Vita, so things could go either way still in Japan. I highly doubt that (and will be highly surprised if) X-Box One is going to make a mark in Japan, so I think the home console market is going to be shared by Sony and Nintendo, very much like it was in the Gamecube era.

Definitely agree with you, I can understand fanboys around the net on forums and sites raving about the Wii U's doom and every other thing because they have no better things to do, but professional journalists... That is just stupid.

No offense, but there were people like you saying that Nintendo "Wasn't relevant in the console market" even last gen, when the Wii was kicking the other consoles' asses in sales. So..................yup.