Should Nintendo have held off on launching the Wii U?

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Soundwave said:

Honestly I think they should've released Wii U in fall 2010 or 2011 as Wii momentum dropped with no tablet controller but a better chipset than the 360 or PS3 and a Wii Motion + controller and a regular Classic Controller.

I still think they could've released the tablet pad with Nintendo Land, but as a separate accessory, like Wii Fit + Balance Board. There's just not enough games that really do anything with the screen to justify it basically hijacking the entire console concept and sucking so much of the cost budget away from the chipset and other features. 

Nintendo could've comfortably made something far better than the 360/PS3 with a 2 year headstart over the PS4/720 that would've ensured a decent userbase at least. 

Completely agree - I think the whole concept of tablet controller as main feature is completely wrong (WiiHD idea always looked to me as a much better idea) - they should've kept the motion controls (plus add Pro as default), beef up hardware to be clearly stronger than PS360 from the get-go (at least HD6670, or even higher), and make Gamepad a convenience peripheral, like what we're going to see with all other solutions in next-gen.

That way, they would have kept momentum, had big head start on competition and made easy to port to console that is more future proof than WiiU.