Is Wii U the Dreamcast of the 2010's?

[kristianity77]

I don't think the Wii U is like any system that has failed before. To be honest, I can't recall a console coming out previously, 5 or 6 years after older ones which was similar power wise to the ones that had already been out half a decade. The Dreamcast was certainly a massive step up from what was out at the time (PS1 and N64) and was evident right out of the gate with games like Soul Calibur, Ready 2 Rumble, Power Stone, House Of The Dead etc (all release titles).

The Wii Us problem was that it came out almost 6 years after the 360 and PS3 and didn't really show anything that wasn't already capable on existing, much more mature hardware and there was the problem.

So yes, whilst both the Dreamcast and Wii U are both failures, I wouldn't say the reasoning was similar. In my opinion, the Dreamcast was crushed because it failed to adopt to DVD which meant it was massively held back in multi platform titles and was promptly hammered by the PS2, where as the Wii U was just...well...no where near powerful enough considering it was released over 6 years after consoles that it didn't look any better than.