This is why context is important.  

You should adjust the GC launch price for inflation which is closer to $260. It doesn't change your point, but you present a better case when you don't leave things like this out. Unadjusted prices only make the information seem biased.

Yes. 3 shoulder buttons as opposed to four, and weirdly placed and shaped buttons that made it impossible to do some fighting game combos. Also, non-clickable thumbsticks.

The Wii U Gaamepad, on the other hand, has four shoulder buttons, standard button placement, clickable thumbsticks, and everything else you could expect from a modern videogame controller. Literally the ONLY thing that sets it apart is the screen in the middle, which doesn't actually interfere with any of your other controls.

I've owned every single Nintendo home console except the NES and in my opinion, other then the SNES the Gamecube was by far the best Nintendo home console. I owned a PS2 and a Gamecube at the time, found myself playing my PS2 every few months and playing my Gamecube every other day at the very least. If a third party game was on both consoles, I usually bought it for the Gamecube and there were indeed a lot of them.

With that being said, it's still way to early to judge the Wii U. It hasn't found its footing yet and honestly Nintendo isn't doing a very good job helping it succeed but that could very well change. The issue is that no one wants to make games for Nintendo outside of a few developers like Ubisoft for example. Which means that if they want to succeed, they would have to speed up their production unit and start releasing first party titles at a more steady pace. Not one game every few months, one game every month at the very least.

If they can pull that off, people will jump on board and the results will show it. Maybe then they can start re-establishing their relationship with third party devs because even though I believe in the business model I just proposed, it won't keep them going for very long.

funny you say about deserved sales when gamecube was the worst sold console from nintendo

It's not only worst Nintendo's console but one of worst consoles ever.

I think of the Gamecube controller as a semi-standard.

It had 4 face buttons, but their placement and size weren't the standard set by the SNES.

It had one analog stick and one analog camera-stick, two different shapes and not the standard.

The D-Pad was tiny and not suitable for 2D platformers or Fighters.  

The clickable analog shoulder triggers were better than the standard at the time, but the 3rd Z trigger was oddly placed.

Overall the GC controller was good but the Wii U gampad resembles more of what an industry standard controller looks & feels like (besides the big touch screen in the middle).

ps4 is worst

What about Virtual Boy, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Atari 5200 and all those wonderful consoles?

What does me being serious or not have to do with anything? What I've said are just the facts! Hardware-wise the Wii U is greatly superior to all those consoles!