The massive decline from gen to gen until the Wii shows Nintendo's console business in dire straits up until the Wii. Wii may have been 'made fun of on forums' and the like but its real world performance speaks for itself. Gamecube's performance speaks for itself as well.
Sales spikes is not as important as sustained sales. With 22m WW sold its obvious WW along with DD and Sunshine did not do their job. Xbox outsold GC.
You can play semantics all you want. But if Gamecube wasn't such a collasal failure, Iwata would not have stated it as one and Nintendo would not have changed their entire business strategy the following gen.
But I guess in your world 22m WW is just dandy. As is 300k in a quarter for Wii U? Gimme a break.
Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:
If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.
If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.
