Nintendo has "nothing new to announce" regarding proprietary 3DS titles

All of these "problems" are within the control of Nintendo. And the worst offender, which you have failed to mention, is their absolute and absolute lack of ANY quality marketing for the damn thing in NA. At any time. It's bewildering to see how the same company, which has managed to commercialize the DS and the Wii SO, suddenly can not advertise to save the life of its systems.

It can not be argued that, at least from a sales point of view, the Wii U was the biggest failure of a Nintendo console. And as a player, for whom the Wii U was (unfortunately) the ONLY system I've ever ordered in advance and got Day 1, yes, I ended up feeling badly burned by the thing . He did not even end up getting his own, exclusive, original Zelda. This eventually resulted in the Twilight Princess treatment and switching to Switch. The release of BotW on Wii U was an afterthought, and far too late, when the system could have used a "system vendor" like this, years ago.

And that is the other major problem you have failed to mention. The Wii U never had, at any time, a single game that is an IMPERATIVE "Killer App", which forced people to own it. Not even Mario Kart. You're right, Wii U has had some really good games. But it was missing Wii Sports, or a Mario who really drove sales, or that big exclusive Zelda that people SEE HAVE. Even with Smash Bros., Nintendo has sabotaged, also publishing a lower version for DS without valid reason. I do not think Smash Bros. The "killer app" that would have pulled the Wii U from the ditch, but as an exclusive system, you could get NILLE PART elsewhere, in another form, that would have at least helped.

Frankly, as the owner of the system, it seemed that Nintendo had abandoned the Wii U pretty quickly. Yes, they continued to play games for that. But they apparently made minimal efforts to make the console a success. So here is. All this is on them. 100% of it. I was one of those who were angry at others who had abandoned the Wii U in 2013/2014. But honestly, who could blame them? If your games are not selling on the system because the system itself is not selling, what are you going to do, keep losing money?