Wii U sales trend may be just as expected if we look at Nintendo's home console sales.

[couchmonkey]

I'm quite amazed at just how bad the fall from Wii U to Wii was, but it was easy to predict it was going to fall as soon as Nintendo unveiled the Wii U Pad. Of course I can't take any credit for such a prediction since I wasn't posting on the site at that time. ;)

What was harder to predict and almost impossible to imagine was just how far Nintendo went back to the GameCube / N64 direction with the Wii U. They literally remade the Wind Waker, in addition to a return to Pikmin and more 3D Mario...I remember looking at last year's E3 announcements and realizing that things were going to get worse before they got any better, but even then I'm still a little surprised that the sales trend swung all the way back to what was happening on the N64 and GameCube. It just goes to show how wrong that strategy is for Nintendo.