Competition shat the bed.
Nintendo made a console which confused people and badly misread the target audience's taste in games. Nintendo's major titles for the first year were Mario and Pikmin, which attracted little interest in older gamers.
Microsoft had an ill-conceived DRM program and forcibly attached the Kinect. Even though they backpedalled the DRM the PR damage was done. Outside a couple of exclusives it has never had a selling proposition. It's never been the cheapest, it doesn't have new hardware--not like the Wii U's gamepad, anyway--and it is not the most powerful console.
Power is increasingly irrelevant. The Wii U is barely more powerful than the PS360 consoles, but if Nintendo had played their titles and marketing with it correctly it would be in the lead easily. They didn't. The PS4 happens to be the most powerful console out there, but its Sony's comparatively strong marketing and PR presence which gives it such an edge.
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