WiiU is a generation ahead the Wii.

[radha]

Arius Dion said:
Horsepower is so irrelevant when it comes to determining a generation. It's always been time of release, up until the Wii whooped ass this past gen. People try to play semantics because they can't have it that the Wii was/is the market leader of a soon to be done 7th gen.

But here's what's ironic; Wii U feels more like a step backwards from the Wii than an evolution of it. An abandonment of a console that sold 100m units and 'won' the console war. An abandonment of a console that was very user friendly and economical. Which had a controller that really did revolutionize gaming.

What we get with Wii U is a hodgepodge of past Nintendo controllers with a touch screen. This isn't resonating with the market, and I remain baffled as to the mindset at Nintendo.

The problem is most Wii buyers did not thought of it as a video game console, in a video around the web a ramdom person was asked "when did you play a video game?" he answered "since the 2600", and then he was asked, "have you played the Wii?" and he said, "oh, yes, but those are not video games, those are interactive things". There are many testimonies like that around the web, Many Wii buyers never saw the we as a games console and only cared about Wii sport and Wii Fit. So the Wii u looks too much like a game console or to the average Wii buyer he does not see a reason to upgrade.