Yawn.

You'd think after two decades of claiming Nintendo is doomed they'd come up with new material.

So no yawn is even required, it's barely 'eh' worthy.

Hmmm... I don't think it needs to go as low as $199. I mean, if you take a closer look at the charts for the last two or three months (Since Windwaker release to be more precise) you will see that the Wii U is the console that has had a more steady growth week after week. Sure, it's a growth that doesn't get noticed much because the initial baseline was too low (20K) but it's a growth nonetheless.

I truly believe that with a $250 price tag, sales should stabilize somewhere around the 130K per week. Which should keep the console safe until the PS360 dissapears from the market and the Wii U becomes the only option available on that price range.

Blackbond? The same guy who graced us with the quote "if you're not a graphics whore, then you're not a gamer"?

It's not so sinister as people wishing the Wii U to fail (though i don't doubt that that is true in many cases). The core point is that people follow the horse race. The media loves a sob story. It's the same thing as the people who were saying "Obamacare is doomed" during the height of the website chaos or (to be fair) the people who were saying the GOP is on the brink of irrelevance during the shutdown (or, going back a bit further, how people were talking about a "permanent GOP majority" after Bush won his second term. Think about how long that one lasted).

Nobody really wants to take the time to talk about the big picture. The circumstances of the moment dictate the future in the public imagination.

Sony's games have won more Game of the Year Awards in recent years than those by any other first party publisher.

A quote you're taking way out of context I might add.

Although he certainly wouldn't be able to use a Wii U for any of them either.

The thing is, you're right, 3rd party > 1st party, and that's the fundamental problem, Nintendo is the only one here trying to play devil's advocate.

I somewhat agree, either step out of the console business and go third party or drop the WiiU and solely focus on the handheld market. I want to play all some of the WiiU games but don't want to fork out for another console, I brought a 3ds but that doesn't need justification, the WiiU does in my eyes.

Gta 4 got game awards. Game of the year are meaningless because nothing is objective.