Why can't the U just be a late bloomer?

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padib said:

Conina said:

The GameCube did have 3rd party support and did bad, but without 3rd party support it would have probably been much worse.

The Wii had third party support. More than half of the sold Wii games were third party (~500 million units of ~900 million units).

But only 25% of the WiiU software sales (~7 million units of ~28 million units) are third party and the ratio will probably fall under 20% in the next years.

The idea is that the Wii sold on Nintendo's merits first and foremost. As usual, with Nintendo, 3rd parties don't take business risks, they piggyback onto Nintendo's success. The same can't be said about the PS or the XB, and so that is why 3rd party support doesn't have the same logic in terms of success between Nintendo consoles and the other two. That's why you can't use PSXB logic on Nintendo consoles, it just doesn't work.

what does this even mean? pretty sure Wii sold on motion control first and foremost. If it really sold on Ninty merits why is the WIi U doing so bad and n64 and Cube got slaughtered