My view of WiiU has already changed significantly. While I will reserve final judgement for when the generation is over and the system will have had all it's biggest games, it still doesn't look good.
While 3D World for example is great, it wasn't the grand ambitious 3D Mario game-changer like Galaxy was before it, or 64 was before that. I know it was never supposed to be, but it means the WiiU goes without a game of such caliber. WiiU also never had a revolutionary new game concept, easiest example is Wii and it's signature series of course, but WiiU never had this 'must have' new thing. For now, the system to me feels like it's something they made to pass the time until they come up with the 'real' new console, to tide us over while they continue their 'real' development. A stop-gap system, if you will. There's fun games sure, but nothing that's really a 'classic'. For now, I see only Mario Kart 8 as a real attempt to bring something that evolves from it's predecessors.
If Zelda then also wouldn't be exclusive to WiiU, or worse, wouldn't come at all, that would without a doubt cement the system at the bottom place of the Nintendo-system-ranking for me. If I could rather get the new game on something else (something more powerful and advanced even), that would certainly make me question why I ever got the WiiU in the first place, if I couldn't have lived without the games it got. I didn't think it would ever happen that I would consider a system worse than what I found to be the very disappointing Gamecube...
But.. We're not there yet. As it stands, Zelda U is still a 'U', and exclusively so. I don't think the game will release later than 2016 (probably November 2016) and I don't think the next system, whatever shape it may take, will release before 2017.