When will Wii U owners be satisfied enough to accept a new console?

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Nintendo gave up on the GameCube by 2005 too ... it's holiday 2005 "big game" was Mario Party, lol.

So lets not act like that had a full 5 year cycle either. Nintendo supported it from 2001-2004 primarily, and basically bailed out as 2005 wore on.