Wii U is just too late.
All wii owners migrate to ps360 in 2010, 2011, 2012...
If wii U was released in 2010, and nintendo say that it was a 7 gen console, it could get all wii public instead of ps360.
But it is a very good console, who owns a wii U knows it.

Each minute it passes, the worse news are.

US sales will be better than Japan sales.

Exactly what market do you think is left over?

The Wii U is defined by cheerful platformers, party games, kids properties, and dance/fitness/singing games over dudebros. titles, it's still not gaining any traction. 

What is wrong with you?

Not every system that sells like dog poop is objectively an awful system. 

The Wii U is probably top to bottom a better quality exprience than the Wii was at the same age. The online is better, the leap in graphics is the first for a Nintendo console since the N64 to GameCube 12 (!) years ago and its incredibly eye pleasing and refreshing. Miiverse is OK. 3D World holds up well against Galaxy and Nintendo Land is probably the best "mini-game" compilation that Nintendo's ever done. NSMBU, Pikmin 3, LEGO City, W101, Zelda: WW, Rayman Legends, are all solid titles too. 

Multiplats are alright if you don't have a PS3/360, Assassin's Creed IV looks just fine, so does Call of Duty, so does Dues Ex and Batman. Even with third party games the Wii U for now holds its own against the PS4/XB1, and while that probably won't hold forever, it's a nice improvement from the "holy crap, did Resident Evil 4 always look this bad?" feeling I got when I first booted up RE4 on the Wii using an HDTV set. Dat low-res brown/muddy look ... oh my. 

The Vita is a good system too. So was the Dreamcast. 

They're all marketing/design failures that are mismanaged by bad management and a lack of vision though, which is a different story. 

This is what I meant when I said you were wrong Rol.

To be fair, Nintendo is in kind of a bad spot here. Because they kind of exclude themselves from competing for the hardcore gamer, convincing everyone else they *need* a dedicated home game console (or worse a *second* or third console) is always going to be tough, and with kids, you end up losing a lot of them by age 11/12 because they become obsessed with being "cool" and wanting to play the same games their older brother/cousin is playing. 

The fact, home consoles are best suited for people who want to play on their big screen TV for 5-10+ hours a week at the very least and want to purchase a large number of games. 

And the people that have that kind of free time, disposable income, and desire to invest that much time/money into games are males age 16-32 years old. And I just don't think that's changing ever. 

Games simply aren't movies, a movie is over in 2 hours and doesn't require anything but your attention. Women are always going to be an elusive audience for games, simply because they're smarter than men (lol) to not spend 10-50 hours playing a video game.

"The Wii U is a piece of trash. NSMBU didn't fail, it's that the system itself is so ill-conceived that it has no long term future, regardless of what games Nintendo releases for it."

Now that's just cruel.

Suffice it to say I would have been completely dumbfounded were that the case. I, and many others in this thread, instead expected from the beginning that it would drag down the system. To date, we've been vindicated. Actually, the system's doing even worse than I expected, which is saying something!

This is not even remotely true. There were two generations of consoles before it.

Lets be honest, if they release more games like this, everyone is gonna have to eat crow and get the Wii U.

Add to this a good X, mario Kart 8, Smash brothers, Zelda U and theres really no way anyone in their perfect mind wont want a Wii U. Wether it has a tablet controller or not makes little difference, though a redesign would definitly help (make the thing smaller Nintendo).

Of course, its not gonna outsell the PS4, but i believe the X1 is still game.