The Wii U is the only console to ever baffle me

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McDonaldsGuy said:

There's 2 reasons I disagree with you:

a) If Nintendo is going to do the blue ocean strategy again, it needs to go full stop. The Wii U is not a blue ocean strategy product.

b) Nintendo has had powerful hardware before, and I think they could have gave us a pretty powerful console in 2012 for $349. Not PS4/Xbox One powerful, but something that could compete.

a)I did not say they were going blue ocean. I think they wagered that the Nintendo fanbase was a larger chunk of that blue ocean(30-50 million) not the measley 7 or so million that bought the U(not every console sold is from the fanbase).

b)They had powerful hardware during the PS1/2 era and that got them nowhere other than a bunch of losses. At $349(making profit/breaking even) with a standard controller the U would have only been a bit more powerful, but not enough to compete with machines that are taking losses at $400(a year after the U came out). The end result would be the same. Half assed ports that U owners would buy on their X1/PS4's. Ports would sell badly, and we would end up where we are now. This is assuming that the U was X86 based and not Power PC(they would have to sacrifice backwards compatibility).