The real reason Wii U is considered "underpowered"?

[VanceIX]

Play4Fun said:

VanceIX said:

 

But, even though the Wii was popular at the beginning of last gen, casuals moved away from it due to smartphones and its last three years were mediocre. This generation is all about the core market, and Nintendo didn't anticipate that, so they tried to build on the Wii, but in the process just made some core gamers shy away from it ("Wii" is practically synonymous with "casual"). Naming it something original would allow them to rebuild their identity with core gamers, but Nintendo didn't look ahead and it bit them.

First of all, Wii's sales started to falter when Nintendo began dropping support, not because of smartphones/tablets, which seems to be the quickiest and easiest thing some people always jump to these days, to explain any and everything to do with sales.

And also, Wii U is more like the GC than Wii. If Nintendo had actually built on the Wii maybe their console wouldn't be selling like shit.

Nintendo had support for their console, they still released a good amount of first-party exclusives every quarter.

It was third-party devs leaving the sinking ship, as casuals had found other ways of playing games.

Also, they did build on the Wii, that's why its called the Wii U, and it's also the reason why it is faltering so much. They used an old architecture to retain backwards compatibility, they kept the wiimote as one of the standard controllers, hell, even the console looks pretty damn similar.