Although marketing is part of the problem I personally don't think excellent marketing would have saved the wii u. On the wii third party multiformat games sold very poorly because people realised the console was technically weak and not very good at running such games. They wanted experiences that were unique to wii and those were the games that sold well. People already had tablets they used and the wii u can't play wii games out of the box. It also can't match 360, PS3 or next gen consoles in performance. It has limited media functinality and won't play dvds or blu-rays. It is limited to what home cinema systems you can connect it to as there is no coaxial, optical outputs and no support for dolby or dts 5.1 sound. Both ps3 and 360 offer vast libraries of technically more impressive games. They also feature better controllers with proper analogue triggers for driving games etc. They cost less and the games can be picked up for very little money. Both offer proper online functionality for multiplayer gaming. Xbox live is best but Sony offer free online gaming for ps3. Nintendo are dropping online support for existing online games for wii.
Nintendo love to price high but deliver very little to their customers.
