Why did the WiiU fail?

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Wii U is interesting in that it's the main Nintendo system that pretty much would have failed no matter what. Yes, I think it would have failed even if the controller was just the Wiimote.

Wii went from 20.5 million sold to 15.08 to 9.84 million (FY March 2012) even before the Wii U launched .... it was a trend that was clearly losing steam.

GameCube and N64 are systems that I think could have been salvaged to much better sales with a few tweaks. If GameCube didn't look like a damn's child's toy, played DVDs, had Twilight Princess instead of Wind Waker first, and launched earlier, IMO it would've sold pretty decent. If N64 had CD-ROM (could still used cartridges too, Saturn did) it would've won that generation outright.

Continuing the Wii brand was going to lead Nintendo to ruin no matter what IMO.