Well, my new rule I've established for myself is I am going to wait it out until this time next year for the Wii U, before I officially pronounce the Wii U as doomed like most others on the site have seemingly done already.
Reasons being, I see a desperation price cut coming soon, as 3DS had. Well see what that does. Also, most of Nintendo's big games have yet to be released or even announced, aside from NSMB and Monster Hunter (in Japan). It is always games that sell consoles, and Wii U has few interesting ones thus far.
Finally, we have the examples of 3DS and PS3, both of which stumbled out the gate to start but are now putting up pretty solid numbers. Wii U could very well follow in their footsteps.
If worst comes to worst and we have another Gamecube on our hands, oh well, it's no skin off my back. I've pretty much outgrown the days where I need my preferred company to be "number 1!" to gain some sort of artificial feeling of superiority. Gamecube afterall is still one of my favorite consoles (it's even part of my username).
A part of me actually hopes this thing crashes and burns, for a couple reasons. For one, it only means I'll be able to get Nintendo's console at a much cheaper price than anticipated. Second, it will most likely wake Nintendo up again like the poor performance of Gamecube did and they will hopefully abandon their stubborn ways and again make games for a mass market audience like the NES and early days of the Wii. If that's what it takes for Nintendo to get their head out of their ass, so be it.
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