Nintendo should've gone for ps4/720-ish specs with a year earlier launch. Right now, what incentive does anybody have to buy a Wii U? The exclusive are few, and the multiplats are pretty much identical to their ps3/360 counterparts, only the online communities are all on those other platforms.
Releasing a ps3/360 caliber console years late wasn't the right approach, controller and Nintendo games or not. Releasing a ps4/720 level console a year before the competition could've gotten them somewhere.
This isn't like the handheld market, where their "low spec" product (relative to their direct competitor) isn't competing with six year old devices that are similarly spec'ed.
I think most people saw this coming. Though I didn't expect it to be quite this bad. I was more thinking we'd see a N64-like success. Reasonably strong sales propped up by strong first party releases, but nothing comparable to its predecessor. It remains to be seen whether future first party releases will give the Wii U the renewed life it needs to stay afloat.
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