I think the WiiU is 'doomed' because of the controller.

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Fusioncode said:

Busted said:

VGhippy said:

I don't know, I just really really think it was a big mistake.

Like the dual screens of the DS, or the motion controls of the Wii, or... the ditching of CD's for the N64, the point is, you could be right but you could be wrong we have to wait and see, nintendo hasn't put their first AAA game on the Wii U, let's se what they have and then we call it doomed, or not... patience is a virtue.

Nintendo never ditched cd's. They simply stuck with cartridges because they were too scare to evolove. And I think Nintendo already has a AAA title on the Wiiu, NSMBU. 

That's not true at all. Nintendo was working with Sony for a CD based console, needless to say, the project failed and Sony end up with the PS1. Then Nintendo start creating a CD console with Philips, again the project failed but Philips made it's own console (the Philips CD-i), by that time Sony already had almost a year head start and with the PS1 popularity Nintendo didn't want to stay behind, so they decided to launch the console with cartridges (a format they were familair with). I know that after they work with Philips, Nintendo start working with another company (for propietary CDs) but time was running short (I can't remember the company's name atm). Nintendo did made a disk drive (called the N64 DD) as an add on, but it was only release in Japan.

In the end Nintendo wasn't scared to evolved, they worked with 3 different companies in order to make a CD based console, unfortunately 2 of the projects failed and by that time the competition (which they help to create) had a big successful start, so time was precious for Nintendo.