Nintendo doesn't have a new gimmick like motion gaming to sell the Wii U. Aside from name, there's pretty nothing that ties the Wii and Wii U together, two successive consoles could not be any more different sales wise.
That said the Wii didn't get respect from third parties even with its sales, so what does it really matter. Nintendo is going to make their same core IP on the Wii U, we just won't get a flood of fitness/party/crapware to the same extent. I don't mind.
I'd rather have a 20-30 million selling Wii U where there exists at least an OK sized group of people who might purchase games like Wonderful 101, then 100 million where like 70% of the userbase only bought the console primarily because of Wii Sports and similar types of casual software and are only willing to maybe try Mario games.
I'm glad those people are gone to smartphones and tablets. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I'll just say it -- f**k "blue ocean" if the audience is that fickle that they go running to $1 games and only play maybe an average of 10-15 minutes a day at best.
