Also just looking on Metacritic aggregates I feel Wii U remains in a weaker position than GC.

GC, US 2001-2003
21 games rated 90+
78 games rated 80+

Wii U, US 2012-2014, including eShop
4 games rated 90+
36 games rated 80+

Wii U, US 2012-2014, excluding eShop
3 games rated 90+
25 games rated 80+

Wii U will get a few more before the end of the year.  Indie/eShop or not matters, because they're lower budget and don't impact sales equally & Joe public doesn't see them as well as games on shelves.

Come on, how many of us do you think don't play FPS on PC with mouse + keyboard?

Motion controls & dual analog has it's pros & cons, that's why motion controls haven't become the defacto way for most people to play FPS, and dual-analog has endured.

well you and i both know that im not going to be digging up threads and such in the past, but i sure do remember a lot of "2014 will be the year of the 4" crap, people saying that its going to have uncharted 4, god of war 4, killzone 4, resistance 4 and other games that are going to be 4. and with mark cerny talking up short six month development cycles, i think a lot of people expected a little more games than what we have. oh yeah, and SECOND COMING OF THE PS2. glad that is out of everybody's system because its certainly no ps2. 

and what you said about it cant compete with ps4 on a technical level, thats assuming that being "next gen" has to do with having 8GB of ram or whatever other standard sony has set on how powerful your console has to be in order to be next gen. i dont know why anybody would use that as a standard, but whatever. they came out with a console at the same time sony and ms did, and theyre all competing for the same money.

anyways, sales, at least in some part, do suggest that interest in wii u is raising. i mean, its base line nearly doubled since mk, and that raise in baseline is affecting sony's sales. i dont care what anybody says, the consoles are in a competition against eachother, and sales for one means there is a less chance of that person buying the other. so i do think there are a significant amount of people out there who chose to buy a wii u instead of a ps4 because of the games it had. and you know as well as i that it takes A LOT to turn around an image of a company. sony is still selling that many consoles because of the hype and the bad publicity of ms and nintendo at the start of this generation. it sure as hell isnt selling because of its library of games, its selling mainly because of pr reasons. look at gen 7 where, at the start, ms and nintendo had great publicity and sony was being made fun of all the time. it took almost the entire generation (about 2010) to fully change those perceptions, and now (2014) sony is king and people talk hella shit on x1 and wii u. think about it, the main reason the sales are the way they are is because of this great mismanagement of the wii u in the marketing department in the first year, the restrictive totalitarian policies ms was forcing on us with the x1, and sony capitalizing on that in combination with having a fantastic showing in feb2013. having a better game library is going to have a hard time competing with all of that. if nintendo keeps bringing games and fun experiences that are enticing to people, then the tides could turn eventually, but that doesnt mean sony is just going to sit back and make remasters all day long. sony will certainly fight back, its just that all this pr stuff has really shaped the sales how they are at this moment. i hope some of that made sense, im kind of high so forgive me if i just rambled and shit

Notice how it is 21 games over 90%, yes, but how many total did the gamecube have that reached 90+? 26 games. That tells me the Gamecube was frontloaded with releases. It had a Zelda, Metroid, Super Smash Bros, and 3D Mario Game released within that timeframe. All of these games still have to be released for the Wii U, but will come - there is no question about it. 

Honestly, when I compare the consoles, the only thing I really see is that the Gamecube had a lot of sports games, and for some reason sports games were much higher rated then than they are now. 47 out of the 78, 80%+ games on gamecube are sports games. I guess not being a fan of sports games, I have a bias in which I don't find the GC to be a vastly superior console. 

Yes but releasing more slowly hasn't improved Wii U's chances.  Will Wii U ever get more than 10 games over 90% in it's lifetime at this rate?

As for sports, people like them.  They matter to sales.

Back in the GC years there was a big improvement in sports games going from gen 5 to gen 6 with better commentary and richer amount of animations.  These days even when FIFA14 (meta 87) or NBA2K (meta 85) look & sound amazaing, it's just expected.

Everybody likes different games, that's why for sales, a console has to hit a spot with a wide range of players.

Again read the original quote. It was about whether or not the Wii U deserves to outsell the Gamecube from a gamer perspective. My recent point was that more than half of the games scored over 80% were of one genre (sports games.) That shows even less variety than the Wii U's, which is a common argument used against the Wii U ( a lack of game variety.) I personally see the GC and Wii U in the same boat. My initial confusion was with the newfound nostalgia the GC has been getting as some sort of excellent console, and that the Wii U doesn't deserve to match it. Back then, the Gamecube was the console with the least third party support (like the Wii U) and the least variety (like the Wii U.) 

Well, could you please kindly show us when people said that Uncharted 4, God Of War IV, Killzone 4, Resistance 4 were coming out in 2014? I mean, your post makes no sense at all.

Uncharted 4 got a teaser trailer late 2013, so obviously couldn't be expected to release this year.

God Of War: Ascenson came out just last year, of course God Of War IV couldn't have released this year.

Resistance is dead. There woul be no Resistance 4. Sony had already said that.

Killzone: Shadow Fall was a PS4 launch game. So people expected a sequel within a year, really?

I mean, your post really doesn't make sense at all. Why would people buy a gaming console only due to good PR behind it? Why would people expect the sequels which are sure to not come in 2014? Besides, there was no reason people would buy a PS4 in the expectations of tons of games, when all new gaming systems have a drought of games in there first year.

Btw PS4 actually has tons of games released or coming in 2014, much more than many systems in the past.