But what if the next Metroid was made by Platinum, jk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mFKGnxO8b4#t=40

I don't see how Metroid, Pokemon Snap and a Mario/Sonic crossover would help the WiiU.. A Pokemon MMO might help though...

I don't want another Pokemon snap! The game was so boring.

Pokémon Snap released alongside Fatal Frame 5 would really make a lot of sense, though.

A Mario and Sonic platformer cross-over is one of the worst ideas I have heard in quite some time.

While the Pokemon MMO would absolutely shift consoles I have high doubts the other 3 would help Wii U sales a whole lot. Metroid has never been a console shifter, even with Retro's games. There's no reason for that to all of a sudden change. Metroid will appeal to the people who already have the system and a few other diehard fans of the franchise who have held out on getting a Wii U yet. Basically no one else. The same pretty much goes for Pokemon Snap, which is too niche of a little game sub-series to be a console shifter. A Mario and Sonic platformer could maybe move some consoles, but I get the feeling the game would suck if it were made, because of how incompatible the two platforming franchises would be to mix together. They'd basically just have to add Sonic characters to a Mario game, and that wouldn't go over well and the game would probably be labeled a cheap and lazy attempt of a money grab and not sell well in the long run.

So yeah, in other words Nintendo is not losing tons of potential Wii U buyers by not making 3 of those. The Pokemon MMO is a whole other story though. If they got that to actually work it would be massive. Like WoW on steriods levels of success. But getting it to really work would be the tricky part. If it didn't it would just have a big start and then quickly die out.