Had this been in the original post, I would not have said anything. My apologies. 

Well are they? We really don't know. Why aren't third parties supporting the system? Is it because they don't get their money back? Is it because Sony and MS pay to not have them support the Wii? lol. Is it because it's a different platform and architecture? Because of bad blood between them and the third parties? How about all the above? Who knows. Who gives a shit? It's all BS as a consumer. I don't care in the slightest about the reasons. Would I buy more third parties if they were to be released? Yup. But I'm only one consumer. I'm glad there are studios like Straight Right and Tantalus, but they shouldn't be necessary. I don't want a second console because it shouldn't be necessary. Very little on them actually entices me to purcahse them. Also the paying for online is complete BS. Beyond that, I have no issues getting one. It's still a good chunk of change to put out for a possibility of low return. 

I only included the Wii U because his point was saying that was the only hardcore one.  I was making a point to him not covering myself for everyone else.  Anyway apology accepted!  And FYI I personally think the Wii U has some of the most hardcore gamers around.  A lot have been gaming with nintendo for 30 years.  

Makes sense. Thought you were singling out Nintendo gamers.

And yeah, I agree. I haven't been in the Nintendo camp for very long, but I've always known it has an extremely dedicated core fanbase. Just a shame not many people will experience what the U has to offer.

BS. By saying that you have given up any integrity and made your point meaningless. Moot.

Screw it Nintendo, go to the grey side and lets have 4K triplets next gen, the HD twins are lonely.

JK - I'd rather see Nintendo do their own thing.

Would scalable graphics between the console and handheld provided by the unified OS really entice 3rd parties? It would make for easier ports and would give 3rd party publishers to not ignore the console/handheld, unless they would rather ignore both entirely.

Well now that I think about it it seems like this wouldn't fix the issue with 3rd party publishers. They would just as likely ignore both systems entirely. But it would allow Nintendo to punch out games at a record pace.

This isn't just Nintendo. No matter what 8th gen console we're talking about, every announcement seems newsworthy to people. If the Wii U gets a port of a game for Xbox One and PS4, it's news. If Xbox One or PS4 gains another exclusive, it makes the news. I remember 20 years ago when both the Genesis and SNES had a lot of exclusives and a lot of multiplatform support. Then games themselves were what became newsworthy, not the number of games each system had. It seems that everything has been reduced to mere numbers.

Bioshock PS3, Mass Effect 2 PS3, Last of US remastered, GTA 5 for PS4 and Xone and those are just some of the top of my head. So this whole late ports dont do well is nonsense so the problem has to lie with Ninty

Seeing you know a lot more about Nintendo than me you might clear up my conFUSION ,   will the new console take Nintendo further out of sync with the other consoles  in regards to the life cycle and if so is that a bad or good thing.