@Conegamer
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It depends. If I'm reading what he said right. He meant Vita lacked system sellers at launch even though it had a relatively strong launch, especially in terms of quantity. The same case as with the Wii U. It was named the strongest launch ever by Nintendo fans. 2D Mario and Nintendo Land, plus strong third party titles. A lot of people had their doubts. They were proven right, cause even if your game is a system seller on paper (NSMB) and your system constantly sells less than 30k units a week, it means it failed as a system seller.
Maybe the sentence of small audience doesn't fit for Wii U, as the usual Nintendo bets, are popular, with high attach rates.
And as for the second paragraph we shall see soon. I expect Wii U to be a moderate flop overall. The sentence about blaming Nintendo only is a perfect fit. Having 2 not very development demanding games for launch, then a couple of minor games down the road (the fact the New Super Luigi U goes retail is a joke if you ask me) until Pikmin 3 comes out, plus more platformers, hd rehash of an old game and a karting game for holidays, that's just weak and Nintendo is to blame, especially considering that Wii didn't get a lot of support in the recent years and the same was true about 3DS, hence the huge emergency price cut, only then Nintendo stepped up their game with software for 3DS.
And noone should blame 3rd parties when they don't support a console that has the weakest momentum out of the gate since Dreamcast or worse. And it's only Nintendo's duty to get them on board, even if by moneyhatting (like with Sega and Platinium, that's a start) especially since Nintendo had a single most profitable generation ever from 2005 till 2010 with Wii and DS in full force, they made freaking mountains of dollars, that it seems they don't want to invest. I don't see moneyhatting 3rd parties on a global scale, I don't see opening new studios.
Also people are not to blame when they either choose consoles close in specs, with better libraries and cheaper, or when they will choose next-gen consoles, with a promise of a quantum leap in terms of advancement and a lot of variety thanks to full 3rd party support.
I expect a rocky holiday for the Wii U. The next-gen consoles will be in full force as well as their respective marketing machines. And I don't think Wii U's holiday line up can really compare to those even though it's one year on the market. That plus the excitement of something really new launching. Shortages can turn out to be a friend and we will most probably see them, cause the demand is big, for both consoles. We'll see if I will be proven right.