The Wii U is the only console to ever baffle me

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curl-6 said:

From a business point of view, Wii U is the most badly handle major console I've every seen. Worse than the Saturn, the Dreamcast, the Gamecube.
Almost everything that they could have gotten wrong, they did get wrong. They shied away from common sense at every turn, burying their heads in the sand and pretending nothing was wrong. Only their beloved franchises have kept them afloat; any other console maker would be been Dreamcasted by this point.

They thought they could cash in success just like the Xbox 360 did by going with something original (as original as the first HD console might be, but instead, Gamepad) and by releasing first on the market before anyone else, which eventually lead to all these strange hardware designs.