Yes, because it's so much more like an N64 or Gamecube situation that there is absolutely no reason to bring up the Virtual Boy other than because of trolling and/or overreacting.

Maybe wiiu will pull off a nintendo DS
all those gloom and doom for DS when PSP- a stronger, better looking device that has beastly graphics (at the time) is about to be release...
and yet it happened again on 3ds - vita....

i hope nintendo learned its lesson from n64 and gamecube...

YES! 0_0 what's up with some of you ...geebuz..wiiu is having issues but come on

Didn't the vboy sell like 800,000 copies or something. the wiiu is out of that lane.

What a stupid thread.

Virtual Boy was nothing like the Wii U. Wii U is just doing bad compared to Wii. But its still going to survive like that unlike Virtual Boy where the system was borderline unusable by design.

Virtual Boy had an almost Non existant Marketingcampaign and was not just no technological wonder but actively hurt consumers. Wii Us "Technological Wonder" is at the very least not blocking anyone from using it.

@spurgeonryan

Would you please explain what slightly comparing something is ?

Why would you slightly compare two cases that are totally different when you have better cases like GC N64 SNES which have much more in common with the Wii U than the Virtual Boy. 

For every aspect in the Wii Us life there are much more similarities to other Nintendo Products. The Virtual Boy is an unique product which was so different to the rest that you really can't compare it to anything Wii U related without skipping multiple better examples. A comparison is only logical if there is a point where the similarities match better than other examples thats not the case with Wii U and Virtual Boy. So the comparison makes really no sense. Or show me one thing were the VB is a good comparison to Wii U and no other Nintendo product is closer to it.

It would be nice to see what makes you see a connection between VB and Wii U ? Other than that they are from Nintendo.

Edit: If you point to the thread each and every point has closer examples to the Wii U, than VB is. It plays in an entire different league so really VB could be compared to XB GC N64 too pretty much. But VB wasn't even on DC level it was really nothing that occured later. The points you made are general failures for not as succesful consoles. But the real reason why VB failed that hard is because the whole concept was broken. Wii U is  nothing like that.