Is the Wii U a failure in concept or execution?

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It's a conceptual failure as much as it is a execution one.

The Wii was such a huge success but chasing this dragon again was ill advised. Something like this happens once every 30 years, it's a phenomenon and that's that.

Almost all my friends and several family members bought a Wii. A few of them even spent weeks and weeks trying to find one in 2006-2007.

The thing is of like 20 people I know who own the Wii, pretty much none of them is interested in upgrading outside of 1 person.

Even after I've sat many of them down and explained the concept of Wii U and explained that it's a new system, they're pleasant about it, don't get me wrong, but it never translates to a "wow! I must have that!".

And all the Mario/Zelda games in the world aren't going to change a lot of their minds. They already have a Wii and they got their fun out of it from Wii Sports primarily. Now they feel like they don't really need to upgrade.

I think this is something Nintendo fans don't understand because they figure more Mario will solve all the problems, they don't understand that Mario isn't what made the Wii a phenomenon in the first place, it just piggy backed off its success.