You mean like 3D open world?!

It's risky to have one single title be a system's savior, not to mention putting so much pressure on themselves. Only the future will tell, I suppose.

If there was one game, it was Skylanders. Nintendo already missed their chance. I have no doubt that the system can one day be profitable, but no one game is going to do it these days.

Yeaa!! Like what spurgeonryan said with Pokemon mixed with X! Would fap day 1!

Pokemon is an 18 year old franchise that appeals mainly to an audience that Nintendo already has.

That's not what Iwata was talking about, he's talking about breakout new franchises (which Pokemon was ... in 1996). Unfortunately he doesn't really seem to have a game to back up all his talk with.

Unfortunately, considering we're talking about Nintendo here, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he meant something like Mario Kart.

I don't think that first statement is not what Iwata said at all.

I could indeed see them moving resources appropriately, as it makes little sense to pour so much money into a WiiU title that it would take millions upon millions of sales to be profitable. You can't often bet on the game you make being a smash hit.

But yet smash hits do exist, there have been a number of them over the years, and they can be the tipping point for hardware. The best way to try and find that smash hit, and I think this is what Iwata is implying, is to support a system consistently, and to try and make killer apps. The tone of his answer is more "we will continue making games to the best of our ability for WiiU because one of those games could be the title that makes it take off" rather than "we're only developing one title for WiiU because one chance is all it needs, like a lottery ticket, and we bet 100% that this one title will be our savior."

Now, hopefully they realize that in order for something to come close to saving them it has to be something we haven't seen before.

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and say most Pokemon fans are probably Mario and Zelda fans too ... seeing as how they were raised on systems which prominently feature Mario and Zelda. So I don't think it's really that diverse of an audience that Nintendo would be gaining

Pokemon in 3D could not save Nintendo from having their worst handheld sales since 1997/98. It's not a be all, end all solution. A lot of Pokemon fans would be content to just play on the 3DS too rather than paying $300 to play a non-portable entry. 

If selling more than 12 million means saving the WiiU, then yes! A single title could save the WiiU!

Basically he's keeping his fingers crossed for a hit :S