So what's up with 2012?
I think we are going to be ushered into a new golden age starting with the Wii U only a month in advance.
What I hope happens on December 21st:
Extraterrestrials will come down to Earth and invite humanity into joining their United Federation of Planets (or whatever) and there will be peace and a new Golden age, and we and our new Alien friends can play Mario Kart together on the Wii U.
What I fear might happen instead:
1) Same as above, except the Aliens end up being a colonizing or conquesting force, and they steal the Wii U's and send them back to their homeworld leaving us with nothing.
2) Someone somewhere in the world detonates a nuke, and WW3 ensues leaving no one (or almost no one) left alive to play the new Wii U. Even for the few who might survive, the world will be plunged into the darkness of a nuclear winter. There will be no electricity with which to play the Wii U (if any of them managed to survive the nuclear blasts). Nintendo as a company would probably cease to exist.