The problem with your logic is you're operating in a fantasy land where Nintendo has the same credibility with the audience games like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty and what not attract. 

That is Microsoft-Sony-country and Nintendo's basically let them have that audience all to themselves for the last 6-7 years. You may say "well that's not fair! what about Sony and MS". Sony and MS don't need to prove anything to that audience, they own that audience and get the benefit of the doubt. That's not fair, but guess what. Life isn't fair. 

So Nintendo showing up, even with day-and-date ports of a lot of these games isn't going to do much. 

Nintendo needs to have *clearly* better versions of these games to get people's attention and get them thinking "oh hey ... wow I guess this is a lot better on the Wii U". Which shouldn't be that hard for hardware that is 7 years younger, lol. 

Nintendo bent over backwards to make this system as small in size to the original Wii and as low of power consumption as they could, but in the process IMO they basically killed any chance of giving third parties a box that could easily provide an outlet for higher end ports (ie: 1080p, PC asset ports, etc.). 

We have also seen how that story goes for the Wii lol. The Wii had CoD so whats your point lol, I guess they went after the core there too lol. The problem with you, is the fact that you cant accept Ninty doesn't give a damn about the core. You just enjoy eating up everything they say lol. They do little things like say they want the core and you take it to heart and wonder why you were burnt later lol. Why was the WiiU first shown off with the same franchises that made the Wii popular? I think you're just in denial.

So the GC did better than Wii lol, why even mention the GC if it had a wonderful launch and still sold less than 23 million consoles lifetime. It launched better than Wii. Also I love the fact you keep ignoring the fact that the WiiU has had reports of it being mostly sold out. Yet you brought up the Wii having supply problems and not the reports of the WiiU having the same.

So it even outsold the Wii?

The GameCube did sell OK in North America. If you bothered to actually read my post I pointed out clearly the reason the GCN ended up with such a low userbase is that it got very little juice from the European (4 million life) and Japanese (3 million life time) markets and at the very least, Nintendo has made very large strides in those markets. 

The Wii U demand is not anything like the Wii demand though. The Wii U is selling right at about the level Nintendo is shipping at, which is lower than the GameCube, so that's not exactly anything to throw a party over.

The Wii only sold about the same, but its highly disingenious to try and spin that the Wii U is just like the Wii. Hell no. Anyone around in 2006 will tell you something really unprecidented was happening with the Wii. 

There were line-ups for *re-stocking* the Wii, not just launch. I had to line up at 8 AM to get a Wii in December 2006 and I got the very system. There were about 20 people behind me that went home empty handed. Wii could've sold 2-3x more easily in 2006, Wii U is selling right around where the demand is IMO. 

Go and find out yourself, that information should be easy enough to find.

The point is that even GC had a good launch and there is a real possibility that Wii U will be the next GC when it comes to sales.

There is a real possibility any new platform could be the next GC lol.

Who cares about the WiiU being no where near the Wii's level of demand lol. And I don't care about your speculation, those reports of figures said the WiiU is basically sold out so no you are wrong, Ninty isn't shipping at demand. Also are you saying the WiiU will sell less than GC? If so you are going to eat so much crow lol.

I already know and it did outsell the Wii. So whats your point?