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JNK said:
Miyamotoo said:

You are in delusion if you think Wii U failed only because gamepad wasn't popular.

There is a reason why Wii U will be worst selling Nintendo console, that's because Nintendo made bloody mess with Wii U, all those mistakes combine effect that Wii U have such a terrible sales not just one single mistake, like I wrote: terrible and misunderstood marketing and name of console, unappealing and unused gamepad, bad timing, high price of console in comparison with competition, weak launch and 1st year title, software droughts, Nintendo invest huge effort in saving 3DS in time they need to prepare launch of Wii U...all that lead to terible sales and terible sales lead to 3rd party completly abonding console in 1st year, at end Wii U becoming worst selling Nintendo console.

I dont think NX need to compete with PS4, but definitely will be much more desirable product than Wii U was, because Nintendo will not repeat most of mistakes they made with Wii U. For instance you can bet they will have much good and much better marketing, they will have great launch and 1st year titles, they will not have software drouth like before because of unified platform, they will have more affordable price point, they will have better gimmick than Wii U had (only unified platform and cross play is much better gimmick than Wii U gamepad), they will probably have similar power and arhitecture like X1/PS4 and that means easy and fast multiplatform ports from X1/PS4.

If the Wii U would had another name it would had sold the same or even worse. But you would know tell me "the new name was a horrible mistake, 100mio users owned a wii and the brand was extremly popular, nintendo should had kept it like playstation and xbox did".

The console is selling bad because of decreasing interest in nintendos home console games. 

So wrong. In Wii U case marketing and name are single biggest reasons why Wii U failed. 100m people owned Wii, but all those people in meantime migrated to other platforms and didnt play Wii any more, basically they move away from Wii, and than Nintendo comes with terrible marketing and again Wii name making misunderstood and confusion on market where all those casual thinks that Wii U is actually some kind of addon (tablet controller for Wii), and not new console. Not just that consumers were confused it was same for shops and retailers, it was mess. That misunderstood and confusion last almost whole year, when Nintendo finally had better marketing (around holiday season 2013.) it was already too late. Personally I resseling Wii U games, and believe me there people that still dont know that Wii U exist and that trying to buy Wii U game for their Wii. So only with better and normal marketing that didn't make misunderstood and confusion and different name, Wii U sales would be definitely noticeable better.

Add to terrible marketing and bad name all mistakes Nintendo made with Wii U (that I mentione with) and you have worst selling Nintendo console.