I don't think it's a huge reach to say that Nintendo may have simply just created a console here that doesn't have much of an audience reach beyond the hardcore Nintendo fan. There are a lot of tell tale signs of it already. In which case the term "DOA" isn't really all that unrealistic to say.

Looking back on it, a lot of the consoles that most people today acknowledge as "failures" like the Saturn and GameCube generally are done in by poor decision making/design decisions that are made before the console ever hits a store shelf.

1. What's the community at large suppose to mean? Forums? Moot point, if so.

2. Has there been some mass vocal reluctance from publishers about the gamepad that I'm unaware of?

Or maybe lack of software, lack of advertising and most expensive console on the market is the reason.

1. Video gaming/consumer market as a whole. Comparing the Wii launch to the Wii U, you can see the difference between a successfully received concept and one that has not received a strong reception.

2. I'm referring to various comments from developers/publishers that they are not developing game X or game Y for the Wii U because they couldn't think of anything to do with the GamePad. I recall hearing something to that effect from Gearbox, among others.

*Okay, must have screwed up in posting, because this is an extra post. Sorry.

1. So you're saying the WIi U's slow sales has to with the gamepad and not the software drought and lack of marketing?

That's as short sighted as people who blamed 3DS' 3D feature as a reason customers weren't embracing it, when the big problems were really the price and most of all lack of games.

Comparing the Wii  early months to Wii U's doesn't mean the gamepad is the problem. The Wii U had steady first party support from Nintendo early on, the Wii U hasn't.

2. I haven't seen comments like that from alot of devs. The complaints/excuses have mostly been the same not enough power,  our games don't sell on nintendo consoles or it's userbase isn't large enough.

Either way, vocal reluctance of publishers to embrace a concept does not provide  credence to the idea that a console's main appeal is something of a non-starter to customers, considering 3rd parties were largely reluctant to embrace Wii's controller. The opinion of publishers don't necessarily reflect the opinion of the market as a whole.

Why retract?

1.  The OP is WiiU related and so is my response.

2.  I didn't make just the DOA comment and then atleast try to rationalize my opinion with some type of explanation. 

3.  I didn't make some type of negative comment about a person or company.

So, i don't think a retraction is something that should be required.  If anything, i would have preferred that you countered my view with a group of facts or counterviews that had with a explained response.

Did I say Nintendo wouldnt succeed? Find a generation where Nintendo didn't profit off of their main hardware. You wont be able to..why? Because Nintendo has always played it safe with hardware and it has either helped or hurt them against the competition in the long run. They always make hardware for themselves and this has cost them a relationship with third parties thus keeping their marketshare naturally lower than the competition. AAA multiplats are what the lionshare of the market wants, not exclusives. Exclusives differentiate one console from another. Do you know what makes Nintendo games different from Sony or Nintendo in sales? Bundling. Sony and MS spend so much making their games that they cannot make one cheap enough to bundle with every syste. 

If you had merely excised that part, i would have no issue with the thread. "DoA" means "failure to launch," in my mind, which is categorically untrue for any major-manufacturer console, which i feel is over-the-top

I don't expect particular good sales for any console, like this generation, or many people going with all the systems. But Wii U will likely sell the less of the three as I believe the console's boat sailed months ago.