Is the Wii U gamepad the reason for it's failure? No Mario HD because they are still trying to figure out how to use it?

[KHlover]

Gamerace said:
Myself and some other have been saying this since E3 2012. Not only does the 2nd screen add too little value, it took away from Wii's major selling feature - ease of use/motion controls and added $50-$100 to the price of the system. They also initially focused on core instead of Wii's casual market and then completely under-delivered to both markets. All of these combine to detract from sales.

Add Nintendo's total clusterf--- on games releases and WiiU was been severely sales impaired.

Sales will improve as more games come out but Nintendo will be lucky to achieve even Gamecube sales at this point (IMO). They'd need to do something truly innovative and amazing (like Wii Sports was in it's day) to pull WiiU over GC/N64 level sales (20-30m). No signs of that happening.

Worse aside from direct competition from PS3/360 it'll now have more powerful systems PS4/XBOne and way cheaper casual appealing systems Ouya/GamePop/Galaxy S4/Razor/Gamestick,etc, etc as well to compete with.

The gamepad was always a bad idea, despite some good use it's been put too.

I'm sorry, but with 550€ the Galaxy S4 is more expensive than any of the Next-Gen consoles.

It's a bit early to judge the OUYA, but pretty much all impressions of Kickstarter backers which already got it are negative.