What if the WiiU does fail? No one seems interested~

[CCFanboy]

Soundwave said:

I stick by my statements. Nintendo has stated and implied several times that they are trying to get a more core audience on the Wii U and having games like CoD and AC3 are "checking that box". 

The problem with this philosophy (sorry Reggie) is that no one cares that the Wii U finally got franchises that everyone has been playing on other platforms for like several years already. 

In effect having ports of these games are nice, but they're about as effective as a knife in a gun fight. Would I rather have a knife than nothing at all? Sure? But I'd rather have a gun too, lol. 

That's Nintendo's problem is they have no gun in this fight. 

If they strategy is to appeal to only Nintendo fans ... great. We've seen how that story goes with the GameCube. 

The major hole you don't account for is that you can make the same argument against the others. All they will have on launch is late ports of multiplatform games. So why is it any different with them? What exactly is the incentive for picking up the games on other consoles?