You think it's certain because it happened one time before in a different scenario? Nintendo would gain nothing by porting a game already available through BC with no need for an extra controller.

Other than a fairly strong NX launch title which buys them extra time to make other games and perhaps an extra 2-3 million sales due to excitement of it being a launch title on a new system rather than buried on the tail end of Nintendo's worst selling home console by two country miles. 

The year ps4 released, there was already hardware 5x stronger, albeit much more expensive. Yet you think if something releases several years later it will barely be more powerful, if at all, because reasons. See the problem there?

oh my so many replies since my last visit. this is officially my first hit with my new account! yay

anyways, i skimmed through some responses, but im at work right now. if i have some time today, ill pop in and correct you guys on stuff.

Just to the OP's point, Nintendo not dropping the Wii U price for last holiday (officially) was more of a tacit admission that they've given up on the system.

If they were seriously planning on supporting the system robustly into 2017 ... they would have cut the price to boost the userbase and give their 2016/2017 Wii U titles a chance. 

And no, the system is not "selling well", I don't know why some people live in a bubble, it had a horrible Christmas holiday season this year (again) in the US and Europe. Japan was OK, but it's not going to sell more than 3-4 million LTD there no matter what what Nintendo does, which is mediocre.

They're not dropping the price because they know the system is a flop and the only thing worse than a flop of a system is a flop of a system that loses them money. So they're basically maximizing the most profit they can get from the Wii U because they know they won't be selling very many more of them. 

The competitors for wii u successor will release two years later, AT MOST. there's no "casuals", that's just a term made up by haters who couldn't accept nintendo winning last generation. wii aimed at everyone, so did wii u and so will the future nintendo consoles.

Neither example is a "mid generation" console. That doesn't even exist.

"Aiming" at a market and actually getting said market are two very different things anyway. 

And no "casuals" I don't think is a "made up" term, there are very clearly people who have a low gaming skill level (novices) and/or simply only enjoy very simple types of games and playing very moderately. And there's nothing wrong with that, I have several family members and friends who bought a Wii and never owned a game console before and likely will never be interested in buying one again. 

There is no such thing as a portable console =/= one not existing right now. the concept is impossible. A hardware will either be portable or home. How do you expect the "portable part" to work outside the home? 4g streaming? cause if the imaginary portable part is rendering it's stuff with it's own hardware, then that's not a part of a console, it's a standalone portable. meanwhile , a portable that can connect to a tv is still a portable.

If you read my post you'd understand it's redundant to port a game already available on the platform, still being printed and always open for digital version. They just need to market the game and let people know the wii u successor is BC.