1. Nintendo to discontinue the Wii U:  This is never gonna happen and anyone that things it will obviously was not around when Sega left the hardware bussiness.  It makes no sense for Nintendo to drop the Wii u because they'd lose all trust from the consumer and no one would buy their next system also Nintendo has way more than enough money to whether the storm of one bad console, especially considering they have another console, the 3DS, selling amazing.  Also ITS ONLY BEEN 1 YEAR and people are already saying they are gonna drop support, oh ya just ignore the Wii U's 2014 lineup destroys the PS4's and X1's.

2. Wii U will sell less than the Gamecube:  I can't believe anyone actually thinks this, but lets think about this logically.  The Wii U managed to sell 4m units in 1 year with terrible first party support, now the Gamecube only managed to sell 21m units...anyone that thinks the Wii U won't easily reach 21m is crazy.  Nintendo is releasing a huge lineup of first party games next year and Nintendo tends to save 1 or 2 games to reveal at E3 and release for holiday season, this year will probably be Zelda U or Miyamoto's new IP or both, add those to SSB, MK8, X, Bayonetta 2, Yoshi Yarn, Donkey Kong TF, and SMT x FE anyone that thinks the Wii U will sell less than 10m next year, which is half the total GC sales, is crazy.  If it can sell 4m in this year with that terrible support it can easily sell 10m next year with that huge lineup.

3. Wii U will be a failure:  So the Wii U won't manage to sell the numbers that the PS4 and X1 will I think we can all agree on that, but IT DOESN'T NEED TO.  Nintendo does not have as much invested into the Wii U as Sony and Microsoft have in the PS4 and X1, they don't have a billion servers or w/e so they don't need to sell as much units to be a success.  I'd say if they manage to sell 30-40m Wii U's they can easily pull a profit off it and it would be considered a success for them.  

So are we done with all these dumbass threads?

Just ignore the ones that set an overly-negative tone. Reasoned discussion about Nintendo's weaknesses and the Wii U's prospects are to be had, but not on the terms of the negative nancies.

If i can't lock, i shall ignore. That's the lesson i've had to learn.

I totally agree with you, people are way to pessimistic.

And you saying "thing" instead of "think", I guess it's wrong.

I like how people fight for stuff they love and stand up for it. Nintendo is a company dedicated to games and gamers and should get credit for that. But like it or not, Nintendo is just a company stocks don't lie, sales and numbers are business, shareholder value counts at the end of the day and all further decisions will be made upon this. Maybe Nintendo should concentrate on handheld and create games for Multiplat?

Someone should just create a thread with all the big titles available on the 3DS/Wii U plus the upcoming ones. Nobody will care about what fans of other consoles says when watching such gaming glory.

Ya I don't look at the keyboard when I type so I tend to make a lot of mistakes lol.

I find it funny how some days there are tons of negative Wii U threads and then others there are tons of positive ones.

This just so happens to be a negative day, but when North America 3D world numbers are out suddenly it will become positive. Then back to negative when the Xbox One and PS4 outsell it black Friday. Then positive when it outsells PS4 and Xbone in 2014. Mark my words.

Logically you can't make a definitive statement either way. You can say the reason the Wii U isn't selling is bad first-party support in the first year, but you can equally say the GameCube sold poorly despite good first-party support (so the Wii U could suffer the same fate).

Nintendo will discontinue the Wii U.

In 2018.