Thats gonna be hard for Nintendo to do especially if Wii is a positive stream of cash and Wii U is produced at a loss as Nintendo indicated. The third party support issue is paramount. Wii U could have run GTA V easily and yet it didn't make the cut. Over 17 million units of GTA have been sold, that over 4 times the lifetime sales of Wii U. That was a missed opportunity on an unimaginable scale.

If you love nintendo games like I do let the wii u die.
Make nintendo make a system worth buying.
Power High CPU, Memory 500 Gig's, A gun that is a gun, not this bunch of parts that look like a gun. A top grade video card.
It would not be hard for nintendo to make a great system that every one wants, fourms youtube facebook, every one is yelling out ideas, so take them use them.

If you love nintendo stop buying the wii u make make a system worth buying or nintendo, stop making systems make games for PS4

Yes we need to buy the 3rd party games coming like Batman and AC4 among others. If they don't start to sell who knows what will happen. They need to market the unique aspects of them too and the games need to come with everything other versions have including multi-player especially as more units sell.

Exactly...this all starts at the home. Nintendo needs to work inside out, put more 1st party games out to bring in all of the Nintendo fans, and third party support will come.

I don't understand why companies (not just gaming) don't understand this.

At least this fall they are stepping it up to get their own games out. We've all complained about lack of 1st party so now we'll see if that was the issue after all. They need to do more marketing and push bundles to get new people on board. Zelda bundle has been a good start. Japan has some with Wii Party U and Wii Fit U - we'll see if these come to North America and Europe too. A Super Mario 3D World bundle that includes the Mario/Luigi controllers would be fantastic!

Nintendo needs to stop with their remakes and create new content for wii u....

Love remakes but first bring new games to show the console power etc.. then remakes.

I think they wanted to avoid people calling it a "Wii Wii", since that was a running joke prior to its release.

"Having a more traditional console this time around would have been better instead of having a tablet as a controller."

Seeing all the praise for the Vita / PS4 remote play stuff, I think Nintendo was on the right track, but it didn't stick to landing. One of the most common replies in reference to the remote play stuff, was a gamer with his wife who wanted to watch some show that prevented them from gaming. In this situation the Wii U would have worked, since you would logically be close enough to the TV, though it just never really caught on. Shame too, since Nintendo was smart enough to make the gamepad double as a remote.

"Sure you can buy a more traditional controller but not every game will support it."

This is the same problem you see with the circle pad add on. Developers don't want to invest in something a small percent of the market has and the market doesn't want to invest in something a small percent of games support. However, a lot of Wii U games at the moment support more traditional controllers.

Rayman Legends (though you need the tablet for Murphy stages), Ninja Gaiden 3, Tekken Tag, Monster Hunter 3, Mario, Luigi, Wonderful 101 are all titles I can confirm work with the controller.

"Nintendo makes some of the most entertaining games around but the hardware has seemed to loose its appeal over the years because Nintendo is trying to hard to be different."

Well this is another catch 22 that you see... people want innovation, which Nintendo tries, but it doesn't always work. Like Mario U added the ability to work with a friend to create paths, prevent problems and so forth. Rayman Legends also did a good job implementing some of the Wii U features, though people quickly forget that all innovation isn't good. I think the Wii U is at least a step closer to "normal", which is a good thing.

I don t think we (Wii U owners) can complain about lack of online or online multiplayer for 3rd party games as virtually none of Nintendo s games have it-

Nintendo could offer online, I just don t think they want to pay for it- so why should 3rd party dev s be willing to take risk that Nintendo is unwilling to take? They should know afterall-

Seriously- Nintendo has not shown much confidence in the Wii U since day 1- we can t expect others to show confidence in it if Nintendo doesn t- Ubisoft has shown more confidence in the Wii U than Nintendo has to date and it has cost them a fortune and we are probably going to lose much if not all of their 3rd party support baring some serious Ubi game sales on the Wii U thru the rest of 2013- Surely they will pick up going forward thru year end- but it needs to pick up a ton and it may not be enough