Did anyone predict Wii U to do this bad? If so, why?

[kitler53]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

kitler53 said:

noname2200 said:

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 hasn't been a Nintendo fan in years.

 

i think he means rol, he was pretty vocal about nintendo's failure to follow their wii strategy. 

 

i predicted bang or bust. i didn't get the wiiU.  i didn't believe superchunk in his attempts to convience everyone the wiiU wouldn't be underpowered relative to the ps4 and nextbox. i knew the "core" would ignore it.  i was pretty sure the casuals wouldn't come back but i'd be lying if i said i felt any confidence in understanding what that market would want.  so i figured either gamecube levels or 100 millon.  i didn't see anything inbetween being realistic. 

It has to be hard times for Nintendo seeing that the market is shifting to different things via age and differing multimedia devices. Children are buying GTA , Assassins Creed and COD over Super Mario and tablet and cellphone games are hurting the advances of the DS even though the DS is still winning the portable war against the Vita.

hopefully this quality of life thing works out for them. 

but really i just hope they go third party.  i still like a few of their games i just hate what they do on the hardware and services side.  i could never make a nintendo console my main console and as a secondary console it is just an annoying amount of money and space to buy the console for just a couple good games.  still, mario kart, smash, and zelda are all good games.