Things would be so much better for Nintendo if they had 3rd party support. Sure, they are releasing a batch high quality first party games now, but they didn't offer much support at the end of the Wii's life nor at the beginning of the Wii-u's. They can't keep this pace up and that's why they really need some support.

No real GTA game has been on a Nintendo system, we have no way of knowing if they would buy it.

You're talking about 2014. The OP is talking about Holiday 2014 and 2015.

And when you jump off an airplane you don't need CURRENTLY a parachute. Free-falling feels great until you hit the ground.

They have focused on providing enough games for the next year... how much is "enough" so they can waive third-party-support? Isn't that totally subjective? And have they provided "enough" games for THIS year so the dwindling third-party-support doesn't hurt their market share?

Yeah, I don't think that's true at all.

Yup! Nintendo should buy Capcom so that the next shitty RE game will be exclusive to the WiiU!

You don't actually believe this yourself, do you?

The signs are everywhere.

WiiU had initial way better third-party support than the Wii: full Ubisoft-portfolio, all Batman and Legom scribblenauts, Injustice, Darksiders, FIFA, Mass Effect, Most Wanted, Monster Hunter, COD, Skylanders and so on. Wii got nothing in comparison. But some Wii third-party sold a lot better, than the games on WiiU. These 57% are probably mostly Just Dance and Zumba.

Of course I don't think I'd sell great if they put GTA V on the Wii U, but It's not like Nintendo fans hate the genre. The only thing is that it has a lot of shooting/killing. It's also open-word (Tons of people like Mario 64 and are happy with Zelda U) and has strategy aspects (Pikmin)

First off, I can understand that some of these posts may frustrate you, but you don't need to be a dick. See your bolded and italicized insults above.

OT: One of the reasons people are balking at your thread is because they don't believe what I just bolded above. Providing just first party games from the holidays of this year to 2015 could grow a solid base of hardware sales, but that's a far cry from actually encouraging third parties to come back to the platform.

Third party developers who make multiplatform games have to work harder to make the game run well on the Wii U as compared to making the game simply for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Additionally, is a small user base of Nintendo fans who have historically not bought your games worthwhile for the developer?

When the PS4 can sell nearly 2 million copies of Watch Dogs alone in the first week, I think developers will still consider leaving the Wii U in the cold. Back when the Wii was dominant, third party developers wanted access to the large install base. Developers would make Wii exclusive third party games even though they would not sell as well as Nintendo titles. Given the large number of Wii owners, however, third party titles could still sell a good amount. However, that is no longer the case for Nintendo with the Wii U. Moreover, the costs of game development have risen to the point that developers are utilizing "pretend exclusivity" (think Watch Dogs and Destiny) rather than full exclusivity.

With that, I think this is also why others in this thread are looking to the future. This is a problem that will plague Nintendo until they decide to make changes with their next console. They're going to have to make their next console more developer-friendly and also at least on par in power with what Sony and MS put out. That will alleviate some of the burden of developers making games for Nintendo, and the titles won't have a gimped Nintendo version. Going along that route may help them break out of the trap of relying solely on first party games.