Yes and no. I think the system itself is good and there are some interesting ideas behind it, but Nintendo stubborn attitude is whats hurting the Wii U the most. No big advertisement push and only until NOW are they thinking of reviving some old franchises to fill in the gaps between big releases. Whats worse is that Nintendo doesn't really seem to understand why the Wii U is struggling so hard, or how to handle it. I fear they are going to kill off the Wii U early and end pouring all of their Wii/DS money into the "quality of life" platform.

I doub their main core group of Pokemon,  Mario 2D, Mario 3D, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Zelda... etc. would suffer much by being a third party. The main thing is more people would buy it. I also think the quality would remain really high. Sega's failures do not equal Nintendo, it is a fallicy in thought too many forum goers seem to have.