Nope, Nintendo will make more deals with Japanese developers but apart from that, there will be close to 0 from the west

maybe Bravely Default HD or something, some Final Fantasy spin-off and that's it.

There isn't going to be any huge Wii U Third-Party Renaissance.

If the system starts selling OK, there may be a couple of Western ports at best. Possibly a few Japanese games along the way, too.

Maybe Japanese 3rd party publishers will support the WiiU a bit more, but Western 3rd party publishers? Not a God damn chance!

Nope. Main problem would be the architecture itself. PC/XBO/PS4 all use x86 so its relatively easy to port between these platforms.

I'm guessing the most influential 3rd parties insisted all the hardware manufacturers targeted x86 and 8GB RAM for the 8th generation. Nintendo ignored them and i'm guessing they'll be hellbent on making Nintendo pay for that.

The only way i see 3rd parties jumping on board WiiU is if they're forced to do so by market conditions. Keep in mind that this actually happened in the case of EA in the past where certain executives resigned their positions when the board decided to support Nintendo platforms. The hatred towards Nintendo is real. 

No. Third party games just don't sell on the Wii U and I doubt Smash will change that.

You see i did, yet my confusion remained. By how much will Smash make the installbase grow?

Yeah that's basically what I was asking - if the growth from Smash will help the Wii U's 3rd party problem - to see what everyone thought.

Seems like it's a resounding no, lol.

What? Do you have a source for this?

The 2nd paragraph is a guess. The 3rd? Yes.