WiiU will sell better than Gamecube.

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Arius Dion said:

happydolphin said:

Arius Dion said:
I think it is quite sad that Nintendo, coming off the heels of a console selling 100m units, is now having a console sell comparable to their biggest console failure (minus the VB).

Gamecube was a pitiful console. It had its gems, but because of its colossal failure, Wii was born. Maybe if the Wii U continues to emulate the Gamecube, the Wii U successor will be amazing. Wii U's problem isn't a lack of marketing or a 'misunderstanding' by consumers to fully grasp the awesomeness of assymetric gameplay. People get it, understand it and are rejecting Nintendo's current direction. As a poster once said, The Wii U and its Gamepad is a solution in search of a problem.Which is in total opposition to what the Wii was.

All of your criticisms about the U's gamepad could be made about the DS.

ergo, it's bullshit.

LoL. No, no it can't. ergo, its not bull shit. The DS was first to market touch screen gaming. The DS was not a solution in search of a problem. 

I think you're dead on with your analysis. The DS preceeded the Wii and iPhone in being the first real mass market device that centered around using the interface to make electronics more accessible to the average person via the touchscreen, which has revolutionized home electronics since with smartphones and tablets subsequently.

The DS you could also see a shift in software early on too, Nintendogs and Electroplankton and things like that showed the direction that Nintendo was going in pretty much from its first E3 showing, because games like that fit into the new paradigm Nintendo had come up with. 

The Wii U ... this is its third E3, and Nintendo's most notable games barely use the Wii U controller in any kind of substantial way.