Soundwave on 15 February 2013
I think the truth is the Wii was just a fluke, which was a huge hit riding the back of the Wiimote/motion gaming that no one had really seen back then. It was the exception, not the rule.
Wii U is just a return to the norm for Nintendo which has seen their console relevance erode every generation from the SNES-N64-GameCube. The casual game bubble burst with the flood of iOS/Android/Kinect stuff being everywhere, it's no longer unique. So Nintendo is just coming back to where they were headed in the GameCube days.
