Is the Wii U this Generations Dreamcast?

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NoirSon said:

Th3PANO said:

Nintendo just came from their most successful Generation ever. 2 Consoles within the top 4 of best selling Video Game Hardware(DS, Wii). Sega actually never made profit (except genesis).

Nintendo made always profit since 1985 (except 2012 or 2011, don't remember correctly now) What makes you think that they will end like SEGA. SEGA f****ed it up like 10 times before going under

I didn't mean Nintendo would end up like Sega due to the Dreamcast failure, I meant that a Wii U failure would be similar to the failure of the Saturn outside of Japan, where they rushed to put out the Dreamcast before the other consoles to make up lost ground. Nintendo hasn't done it before in the home consoles but if they don't start gaining ground within 2 years of the its launch and the PS4 or/and the Xbox One do then the expectation and demand will be for a new home console, because Nintendo doesn't really support money pits for long.

The Gamecube (while not a money pit) was their lowest selling consoel and they held onto it the entire generation.  Why assume they would jump short this time?