Tell that to last gen and every handheld.

Wii-U would need more powerfull hardware to handle the major 3rd party games. A system like that would have sold better, especially if released earlier. Though the gamepad should have been optional otherwise the system would have become to expensive.

It would have mauled the other systems NES style.

But just having good games from every genre for every type of customer would have helped. And that doesn't nessecarily have to come from third parties. They could invest in more first and second party studios.

If they had launched it as a core gaming machine in fall 2012 that was 1 TFLOP in processing power and the screen controller thing was an optional accessorie for Mario Maker and it had third party support ... it would be 2nd place this gen, beating Microsoft but Sony would still be no.1.

Still, that would have to look pretty good for Nintendo right about now.

it would with x1 but ps4 no

Everybody says that WiiU don´t sell because it has no third parties, and yet when someone asks if things would be different with third parties, everybody says no because the hardware.... so at the end is only a matter of prettier graphics, not superficial at all.

In my opinion is all a mater of marketing and timming, with the right marketing and the right launch games (Splatoon and SMM) the console would have sold way more , it would had a consistent third party support because of that and combined with the brilliant first party line up it would end up selling 3 times what is selling now.

You nailed it.

Nintendo will never win with some people simply because they are Nintendo and when they do win in the market like with the Wii these people become so enraged and will rewrite history afterwards to make it seem like the Wii was a bad idea.

If you look at really old forum posts from the early nineties, people were screaming "Nintendo monopoly!" and "SNES has a weak CPU, they should make it more powerful" as high as they could. Some things never change.

It couldn't possibly get all current-gen multiplatform games with that hardware. Games like AC: Unity, AC: Syndicate, The Witcher 3, Batman: Arkham Knight, Fallout 4 and Middle-Earth as well as many upcoming current-gen exclusives will not run on Wii U. So it would have sold more, but not much.

More games is always better than less games. At this point though, 3rd parties have been actively moving against Nintendo for at least a decade. It is going to take more than a single generation to repair the three-way relationship between Nintendo, third parties, and gamers.

False, GC  had most of the multiplatforms and Wii had a lot of third partie games, usually not the same ones that Ps360 but it had others, and they needed just one generation to go from their worst selling console to their best one. And of course, neither gba, NDS or N3DS lacked third party support at all.