If Nintendo can still be relevant with the Wii U, and they are, they can be relevant through anything.

Seriously? A 9 year old console is outselling it weekly.. The Dreamcast had sold more than it in the same amount of time. The Wii U is 4 million units behind the Gamecube in aligned sales... Third parties have shunned them in droves. Many people don't even know the Wii U exists or do no care. That is relevance?

As the company is concerned, yes. They are profitable so it has worked for them. 

As per the gamer, it's harder to say as it's likely on a person to person basis. If someone doesn't like Nintendo there likely isn't anything that they can do to turn that around. Then there are also the opposites. It's the people in the middle that they need to worry about, the ones that can be swayed and convinced to purchase their product. That is where they have largely failed with the Wii U so far, however they have still managed to do rather well with the 3DS so it isn't like they are unable to do it. 

Some of it might have to do with what Sony and MS do as well. Kind of like how MS screwed the pooch and practically handed a crap ton of their fan base over to Sony in one fell swoop. If Sony continues the trend of pushing cloud (the ultimate DRM)that might sway their fanbase towards disloyalty, but it depends how they roll it out and if another is able to cash in on folly if there is any. 

The day that a Nintendo console can be a primary console in your house is the day that i will look at them as relevant. Hell, even Iwata himself said that the Wii U was a secondary console!!!

3rd party games are a MUST. The only people that say that they dont care about third party are the Nintendo apologizers.

The Wii U is the WORST SELLING Nintendo console. Wake up!

Nintendo has to start looking at Sony and Microsoft as COMPETITORS instead of thinking that they are doing their own thing. They have to release a competent console hardwae wise so developers can release their games on every platform without downscaling. And if they are going to release a "Between-Generation" console, make sure that it is powerful enough to be similar to the future Ps5 and Xbox "Two".

Yeah, very relevant. Would they be talked about as much as they are if there were irrelevant? Nope. People would forget about them and they wouldn't be talked about at all. They still make news all over the place, good or bad, they are still entirely relevant.

I suppose if they traded one number of people for another, sure they might be but what about the number that was traded?, what happens to them?.

It'll probably take 100 years until someone realises what I mean by a traded number of people.

My God! Are you for real? It doesn't change anything that i said

If you really think the touchpad on DS4 and the screen on the gamepad are on the same level in terms of manufacturing costs and functionality then I really don't know what to say.

As for your last comment, it really doesn't matter to me what you or others want to believe. If you want to believe it's always 3rd party's fault, that's fine. Because 3rd parties have already decided that they aren't going to try to support Nintendo consoles when Nintendo doesn't bother asking them about what they want. And that's the correct decision.

Exactly! Apparently Nintendo is too busy making Toys figurines instead of focusing on what people really wants from a VIDEOGAME CONSOLE.

LOLL. Spin it anyway you want.