Why isn't the WiiU part of the next-gen console wars?

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OttoniBastos said:
It's simple:

The console war have 3 parts:

- The Specs battle - Where people compare the console's hardware and Software performance;
- The Sales battle - Where people compare the hardware and software sales;
- The Library Battle - Where people compare the number of third party,second party and,specially,first party games or exclusive content for each console.


WiiU is way weaker than Xone/PS4 so Specs battle is pointless;

WiiU is selling sub-40k/week right now and the only software that sells well on that machine is the nintendo one, so Sales battle is pointless too;

WiiU lacks of third party support and the second/first party support is lower than it should right now.So unless nintendo announce a lot o things at E3 for hollyday 2014/early 2015,Library battles are pointless too².

You're talking about where Wii U has been -- not where it can go. 2 and 3 could turnaround through Mario Kart 8 alone. If Fire TV takes off, that could make your first point irrelevant. It's arguably already irrelevant given how popular tablet and mobile gaming is. Specs matter to only a small number of buyers. Developers will put games on any platform that it can sell well on.