I liked Skyward Sword's controls as well.
As a note, though, you can just play with the gamepad plugged in and there'll be no problem... or just charge it when you're not using it because I mean I don't know you but I doubt you have that many over 4 hour gaming sessions. I know I don't have time for that save a few particular ocassions.
Or turn the brightness down, I get at least four hours out of mine at the "3" level consistently.

You can't save the Wii U you can only try to salvage it (e.g. shoot for GC numbers).

They shouldn't release a Zelda game for the Wii U. Make it a launch title for their next system they will release in 2016.

A Devil May Cry-like game where you play as Iwata?! MUST BUY!

you know for a fact Ninty was profitable? how profitable? Sony wasnt at the time? 50% is nothing to be proud of sure. BUt PS3 still sold alot more than N64. What is the baseline for failure? numbers wise? anything above 30mil?

Nintendo's Financials for the year March 1998 to March 1999 show a profit of 86 billion yen. This, adjusted for time and exchange as best as I can quickly estimate which may not be accurate, is in a general sense about $798 million today. FY ending March 2000 - 56 billion yen ($510 million?). For March 2001 (before GCN, only one week into GBA in Japan) profit was 96.6 billion yen ($890 million?).
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2001/010524e.pdf
That's the oldest historical data I can find for them at the moment.  Nintendo took a small loss on N64 hardware but games gave profit.

Sony made a lot of money in the 90s, I wasn't debating that. Now I guess is a different story. A large 179 billion yen profit FY ending March 1999. 121.8 billion yen March 2000, but March 2001 the entire company profit was down to 16 billion yen (this year had PS2 selling worldwide, too). Problem is I can't tell what the gaming division profited. They have revenue reported for it those years, though, so here's a comparison.

Sony Game Division vs. Nintendo Minus Playing Card Division Revenue Comparison (billion yen)

Essentially, 40% of revenue generated by gaming was still Nintendo. So they had revenue and profit. The baseline for failure isn't standard. It depends on how much profit you want as a company. Anything unprofitable obviously fails. Nintendo I'm sure was planning and hoping for more success, so perhaps you could call N64 a failure, but it wasn't really bad. Good enough for them to try again, and good enough for them to generate a whole load of new young fans, which counts in long term business.

N64 almost matched SNES in North America, actually. 20.6 million units. Japanese sales, only 5.5 million, held it way back.

Edit: I found all Nintendo's historical records with their new FY 2014 release.

Now if only I made that post somewhere it was important and relevant to people! I spent like a a half hour finding and reviewing financial documents for the relevant information.

If mario can't save it then zelda can't either.

I don't think the total install base of the PS1 is that relevant in the case of FF7. It's more plausible, I think, that FF7 sold Playstations rather than Playstations sold FF7, given the hype level of that game. The PS1 was an international success not just because of JRPGs, but multimedia features, good advertising, and strong and varied third-party support. My point is that games that are tremendously hyped sell consoles.

Insanely speculative article. We're arriving at assumptions well before we even know anything about the game!