Why do you think the Wii U will fail, when the 3DS came out of a similar horrible slump and even the Vita has stuck in the fight?

[Jumpin]

DevilRising said:

Jumpin said:
It's not unprecedented for Nintendo consoles to flop. N64 and GameCube are two examples.

I'm not sure you realize this, but neither console "flopped". Both had some of the best selling games of the generation, and both made Nintendo money. Just because the Playstation brand took over the industry during those gens, with the PS2 especially because it was a reasonalby cheap DVD player at the time, doesn't imply that those consoles "flopped" with over 20 million units sold each (N64 closer to 30). By those standards, the original Xbox also "flopped", but it didn't.

Already been through this a bunch of times, Nintendo lost money on the Gamecube. The only reason they were profitable was because of their booming handheld consoles, while Gamecube was sucking them down. Nintendo also had hugely disappointing sales and lost tremendous amounts of marketshare on both the N64 and the Gamecube. These by definition were flops. That period was the dark ages for Nintendo.

The original Xbox was a flop too, I never argued it wasn't.