The Wii was an anomaly. Before the Revolution was announced everyone assumed Nintendo was dead in the water. When Nintendo announced that they weren't competing with Sony and Microsoft everyone scoffed. The fact that WiiSports resonated as much as it did with the mass market was not what everyone expected to happen.
I waited in line at Target to get one...their allocation was extremely low. I asked one of the clerks where the line would begin. They laughed at me and told me there wouldn't be one. They said they'd have plenty of the consoles all month.
So then...the Wii happened. Nintendo took a generation after Sony just destroyed them two gens in a row? What the hell? How did that happen. Erm...it's called the mainstream...which is currently playing on their smart phones, tablets, smart tvs, netflix, etc.
So how again is Nintendo to blame that they couldn't destroy the odds twice in a row? The WiiU actually makes complete sense if you remove the outlier that the Wii was. Nintendo has been losing market share for decades, as companies do when other products are introduced to the market.
What could Nintendo have done to be competitive this gen? Release a tablet/phone and release all their games as free to play with microtransactions. And that's just a world I'm glad never happened.
I feel like Nintendo's woes are as much caused by fanboys enraged by Nintendo's mysterious takeover last gen as with any actual mistakes Nintendo may have made with the WiiU. Go into any gamestop, Target, Walmart, Best Buy and ask the clerk about videogames. These are your ambassadors to your hobby...and every one of them will tell you how terrible Nintendo is and how much better Sony and Microsoft are because they make hardcore, mature games for adults.
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