Seeing how Super Mario 3D World has done in sales, you have a point.

It's not FUD, the information is that it's what, 50% faster than an Xbox 360?  Xbox 360 released in 2005 for an entry price of $299.  Moore's law is all you need to understand that means you could have built something similar to Wii U for $299 in 2007.  Of course that's with Microsoft's aggressive pricing, doesn't include the Game Pad, and would be much larger than Wii U.

The date a GPU is designed doesn't determine primarily performance; it determines size, cost and power profile at a given performance.

For example a Radeon HD 3000 with 400 GFlops/s from 2007 has higher GFLOPs than the Wii U, but is kind of big and costly (~179).  By 2010, a newer Radeon series chip equivalent to 400GFlops/s in performance is about 3 times smaller, 3 times cheaper (~$55), and 3 times less power hungry.

By 2012 when the Wii U released, an equivalent GPU is not sold for desktops anymore, but for laptops, sipping ~10 Watts of power.  That's why Wii U can be so small, like a Wii.

Never going to Happen Buddy, Nintendo Would rather die and let their Ips die with them, than to put them on other systems

Agree! This isnt high school this real life. If Nintendo wanted to be number 1 instead of making qualty games they would of put their commercial in 5 different spots in the 2013 Super Bowl (Niners v Ravens).

Anyone who said yes is a pure hater nothing more. We all knew it would do worst than Wii, but not this shit.

There was no writing on the wall that the Wii U would do this bad especially when it looked like it had more 3rd party support than Wii and even with EA unprecedented support on top holding Nintendo's hand praising the system.

Oh, you bet. Ever since the dreadful reveal.

Wish I could find prediction posts for ya.

And it's not purple................or is it?! http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Wii-Skin-PURPLE-faceplate-U/dp/B0077B6DZ6

I was expecting an even 8th generation with PS4 probably edging ahead but all consoles to wind up getting between 28% and 35% market share.

Wii U screwed itself, and MS stumbled. MS might still end up with 30% market share, but because Wii U has done so terribly PS4 could easily get over 50%.

...and that's exactly why Nintendo lost it grip on the industry.

Sigh I remember when even the most jaded Nintendo haters were saying the wii u would bomb and would only sell 50-60 million.