Yeah, just because the games don't have cartoon graphics they're exactly the same. What a joke, this just shows you how much you fail at identifying diversity.

You can't find anything like Dead Rising, Ryse, Zoo Tycoon or Killer Instinct on PS4, and you can't find anything like Knack or Resogun on Xbox One.

Lower the price point to 199.

Make a Mario Kart bundle.

Make new Ip's.

I'm glad I'm not making serious business decisions. Saving a dying console is hard work. DK and Bayonetta will surely bomb and the only thing I can see pushing this console is a drastic price drop when a big game comes out (i.e. Mario Kart) and then ride off those sales to Brawl and whatever else they have planned.

1. Fire Iwata
2. Stop letting Myamoto make business decisions
3. Bundle WiiU with 3DWorld and NSMBU
4. Heavily advertise it
5. Shut down DKCTF (the hell were they thinking?)
6. Put Retro on Metroid Prime (This is more of a personal reason)
7. Make the Virtual Console actually worth a damn
8. Drop the price another $50
9. Get rid of the gamepad that nobody wants
10. Give up

Agree, compare this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_(North_America)

to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_U_(North_America)

Look at the release dates, and how much faster they got the games out for Wii. And the Wii had N64, Mega Drive and TG16 games from DAY 1!

The Wii U hadn't even Virtual Console until months after release, with ONE unsignificant game!!!!! The old Wii had Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda amongst others available at launch, and Super Mario Bros, Ocarina of Time and lots of other classics right around the corner!

DKC was the second best selling SNES game.  Granted, the franchise has been in decline, but it sold decent on the Wii.  I would done Metroid before it though, since it's not really a system seller.

Great job constructing that strawman.

I particularly like the part where you list Zoo Tycoon as one of the games proving that they're not "identical twins" (you DO realise that most instances of identical twins have minor variations in appearance between the two, right?). And it wasn't a comment about diversity, but overall lineup comparison. I'm not claiming that the game lineups are identical, but that they're close enough to identical that it's only really worth getting both systems if there's some specific game you want - and their feature sets are pretty much the same, too. On the other hand, there's a reasonably long list of Wii U games that are exclusive, and you won't find anything like them on the other two, either in terms of overall gameplay, or feature sets.

I used the description of "identical twins" to emulate the way that people often referred to the X360 and PS3 as "the HD twins", because they mostly got the same games, with a moderate number of exclusives - the Xbox One and PS4 are more similar than the X360 and PS3 were, with more third-parties releasing all of their games as multiplatform releases, rather than sometimes making them exclusives.

It's worth noting that it wasn't a disparaging remark, either. There's nothing wrong with their lineups being similar. It just means that the value in owning the two of them at the same time is diminished by comparison with owning one of them and a Wii U. The value in owning either one alone isn't in any way diminished.

But hey, why bother with a nuanced opinion, when you can just jump straight to the stupid console warfare, and lob idiotic remarks like "cartoony graphics" for no good reason?

EDIT: Oh, and I thought I'd throw in a Miiverse image I drew, to finish this post off.

@bold And lose the money they invested in with that game. That doesn't make sense at all.

OT: This is what Nintendo should do. Keep 2014 lineup as it is, after that ignore any huge games that will take a lot of time and a lot of money (with the exception of Zelda and maybe some other tittle), keep a steady flow of games during 2015 and 2016 and release a new console by the end 2017. With that Nintendo shouldn't take any losses (at some point the Wii U will become profitable), will keep the small fanabse happy with at least 1 game a month or every 2 months, won't take losses on games (because they were cheap to make), make the most profit out of the 3DS as you can, and at the very least, don't make investors angry.

No need to Nintendo to persue any 3rd party stuff, and (as long as it isn't extremely expensive) make some deals like Bayonetta 2 and stuff like that. That's the best thing Nintendo can do imo, and will keep them fine until they release their new console.

It's the same thing for the 3DS, which doesn't have SNES or even GBA games.  I think at this point they need to significantly improve it, or just drop it. 

1- redesign the gamepad to be slimmer and bigger 8" multitouch screen to be able to compete with tablets. Only apps would take advantage of multitouch, not games.

2 - Rebrand, redesign and rename the console. Wii U Slim, Wii U Lite.

3 - moneyhat more 3rd parties for exclusive games and collaborations.

Nice waverace pic... just added you as a friend. you know where it's at bro!!