Number one; the 360 and PS3 never had anywhere near the catastrophic numbers the Wii U has shown. And did you miss the part where the PS3 lost a bunch of support due to slow start, being a year after the 360 and being dodgy to program for? This "everyone has it in for Nintendo" conspiracy has gone way too far, others suffer as well when they make mistakes, and they have the same kind of fans who excuse everything they do. Sony lost exclusivity on Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid series; this is easily among the biggest software news in two decades. The main difference between Sony, MS and Nintendo is that the former two seem to learn from their mistakes and they adapt to the market and end user rather than expecting/hoping for the market and end user to adapt to them, and this is a huge part of the current problems we see in the weekly charts.

Number two; what incentive did 3rd parties have to develop for and publish on the Wii U? The Wii crashed completely while the PS3 and 360 kept on going, the combined installed base of the PS3/360 and a decimated Wii concept made it a no-brainer for most and 3rd party games kept on selling well on these platforms, the incredibly clumsy Gamepad didn't do the Wii U any favors either, people who want tablet audiences to give them money would rather opt for developing mobile games.

The Gamepad was a huge mistake from the beginning and I said as much in spring 2012, about six months before the Wii U released. The numbers were seeing is not some grand conspiracy or 3rd parties willing themselves to stay away from Nintendo out of childish spite; it is due to Nintendo being forced early into the 8th gen when the Wii crashed and a succession of really poor choices, and Iwata's continued insistence that "one game can shift the fortunes of the Wii U" shows that they are willing to keep on making bad decisions and you should be a lot more worried about that at the moment, in my humble opinion.

PS: Mirrored posts with "I'm rubber, you're glue" type of rhetoric does not impress me in the slightest.

What happens when it goes to other platforms much later and doesn't generate lots more money despite having big userbases?, time is money still is a thing in the business and consumer world, I for one am not a fan of waiting for months to years for a game to be ported while one group gets to play the game, I tend not to reward those for not giving me the time of day, if someone gives me the time of day I will do the same in return, you scratch my back and I scratch yours, expect me to be grateful and worship you and you'll face scorn and distaste.

Dunno what you're gettiing at with that last part, you seem to be making a bigger deal about a single gif than the actual topic at this point, it's just a mfw and a gif, that's all there is to it.

It's their loss.  I've been pretty happy with EA staying away from Nintendo.  

You say that yet you will probably buy gta 5. How about Konami delaying mgs5 two weeks on pc for no reason other then they favour consoles.  Or the price of the game bring higher than your average pc release?  Will you hold through and not buy these?  

Time is money but not in all cases?  What if this ain't successful?  Ps4 and Xbox One are the two most profitable platforms for them.  If it fails it minimises the damage.  If they go all out and include ps3, 360, wii, wii ,  pc versions then they're gonna lose a lot more money If it fails.  As i said they're playing it safe safe. 

Yeah I asked you a simple question what you meant by it. If you actually answered that then we'd not be going on about it.  But you keep avoiding it.  personally I think you meant it in a disrespectful and condescending way and your avoidance to clarify isn't changing my mind. 

Another person that takes that quote out of its context. Next time, read the source material.
The gamepad was not a huge mistake btw. Incredibly clumsy? Maybe the problem isn't the controller, but the person controlling it...

Oh and people predict doom on Nintendo all the time, so that prediction of yours isn't that impressive. Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

See there's a difference there with your starting point, GTA V has been delayed multiple times and delayed in general for PC for almost 2 years now, GTA IV was a bad port to PC from R* and that goes down with their history, on the other hand MGGZ released on PC a few months later with better graphics, more settings and overall a really good port (not to mention it was sold cheap from the start because it's a months old game and how it should be), sales rose for them because theyw ere rewarded for actually doing a good job overall and giving us the better version, MGSV being delayed for 2 weeks is really nothing since we know Kojima's team can do a good job and use the strengths of the PC better than R* and with a much shorter delay time than R*, Kojima's team have proven to me they are worth it, R* on the other hand have not and they expect full price for a game almost 2 years old (Which is a common thing PC users do not go for and shouldn't for good reason).

Well if they fail on XB1 and PS4 then it;s technically all over, the other two platforms they aren't selling to certainly won't save them if they decide to use them as a last resort, if you fail on the "successful" userbases then you've failed overall, if you fail yet another time and once more after that then I;m sorry but you're doomed to go out of business if you're already that small to begin with.

I answered your simple question with a simple answer; it's just a mfw of how I feel in general, linking it with the word "extatic", you're simply taking it out of hand and trying to create a new meaning that is supposed to have more depth when it really doesn't, it's just a mfw and that's all it will ever be.

"personally I think you meant it in a disrespectful and condescending way and your avoidance to clarify isn't changing my mind."

Personally I think you're egtting your knickers in a twist over a single gif, like I said you're the one projecting it the way you think you see it, not me, I'm just using it as a mfw, literally a facial expression as to how someone feels about something, I'm sorry that I don't share your exact thought and emotional processes.

I'm not avoiding anything though, you're actually trying to make this a big thing than you normally would, if anything you're doing a version of me from a wek or two ago, I've gotten over that but now you're in a reversal order and trying so hard to make it into a big thing to debate with, I'd get over it, the sooner you do the better you'll be.

A broken clock? I specifically stated that the Gamepad could cause an identity crisis since they were seemingly out to please two markets with a single device and that I believed that this would cause problems for them. So all the things I ever said that came true are irrelevant because someone else has said something similar? I made quite a few predictions and guesses, in the UNITY thread among other places, and many of them turned out correct, I also predicted the massive decline in handheld console sales many years ago. Overall; I have written about how the industry works and how it would turn out for some time and it has been mostly correct.

As for me being incredibly clumsy; this is more or less a direct personal attack and I would like for you to avoid that if you want to have a discussion. It is my opinion that the bulky design, lack of implementation, low resolution and high cost of production paired with it not even being available for purchase for two player over two years after release and the fact that the market has not responded to it at all as the figures show, make this an incredibly clumsy product, not unlike the mandatory Kinect for the Xbox One was.

Speaking about out of context; "Oh and people predict doom on Nintendo all the time, so that prediction of yours isn't that impressive." How is this even remotely relevant in this context? Am I dooming someone? Don't go on and berate me for taking things out of context when you do the very same thing yourself.