Maybe it's not Nintendo's fault... maybe people just don't want to buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games.... maybe Nintendo... maybe Nintendo was a fad...

or something completely different than this wishlist

Indeed, people seems to not realize this. Nintendo could have a loyal fanbase on home consoles but every generation there are less of them. At this point there is nothing they can do. So, its not fully Nintendo's fault, even though they have failed maintaining its own fanbase interested on their systems.

They made many mistakes but despite of that they still never had a chance to succeed in the modern landscape of gaming hardware. The competition from X360, PS3, PS4, PC, tablets and smartphones was simply too hard.

Nintendo will release another home console to replace the Wii U since they're a conservative Japanise company, but their main strategy for survival will be to go multiplatform and focus on their software strength. Wii U will be terminated within two years.

Yeah, It's their fault.

Reality:

Of course it's Nintendo's fault! Their s*hit marketing, confusion with Wii brand names, no 3rd Party Support etc. all led to where they are right now, the bottom.

Fanboy conspiracy theory:

It's not Nintendo's fault! Evil Sony and Microsoft paid the government and the media to:

1. Blackmail 3rd Parties to prohibit them from making games for the system.
2. Make the product [Wii U] look like shit.

It's Obama's fault.

Well who else's fault could it be?

Although marketing is part of the problem I personally don't think excellent marketing would have saved the wii u. On the wii third party multiformat games sold very poorly because people realised the console was technically weak and not very good at running such games. They wanted experiences that were unique to wii and those were the games that sold well. People already had tablets they used and the wii u can't play wii games out of the box. It also can't match 360, PS3 or next gen consoles in performance. It has limited media functinality and won't play dvds or blu-rays. It is limited to what home cinema systems you can connect it to as there is no coaxial, optical outputs and no support for dolby or dts 5.1 sound. Both ps3 and 360 offer vast libraries of technically more impressive games. They also feature better controllers with proper analogue triggers for driving games etc. They cost less and the games can be picked up for very little money. Both offer proper online functionality for multiplayer gaming. Xbox live is best but Sony offer free online gaming for ps3. Nintendo are dropping online support for existing online games for wii.

Nintendo love to price high but deliver very little to their customers.

So it's the consumers fault for growing tired with Nintendo's consoles?