I think if you look into reason 2, It's not entirely valid. After the end of the launch years (2006 and 2012) the gap for PS3 and Wii U was about 1,000,000 units in Wii U's favor. Around 1 1/2 months later the gap was around 750,000 in Wii U's favor.  And 360 went from a 1,100,000 gap to a 500,000 gap. You just have to take into account that Wii U lost the steam after the better launch, and the gap was getting smaller.

Lol. How times change.

no one could have predicted the Wii U's poor sales, but it's not shocking now considering how it was marketed, the name, and the terrible release schedule

if Nintendo had released the system a bit later with better scheduled titles, better marketing (no Wii named involved!!!) and possibly a regular controller bundle option then the system would have done wayyyyyyyyyyy better

even if they had just slightly adapted how the Wii's motion controls were (maybe keep the motion controller but adding a screen to it or something) I think would have done so much better, that or just a normal controller. the tablet doesn't make sense, people don't mind pressing start or select to access a menu or map

Yeah, but for many as long as the WII U had a sizeable gap after Christmas, the fact that the WII U's gap was shrinking wouldn't sink in until exactly before it happened. You were also 11, so this is good enough reasoning. Not to say that you couldn't come up with the shrinking gap conclusion back then, but that since you deeply supported the WII U you were very unlikely to admit that the gap was shrinking ( That's how it goes with all fans whether it be adults or children )

It's funny how we can be extremely logical, and stubborn.

This. One thing's for sure....even people who don't like Nintendo didn't expect the Wii U to do this badly. There's hardly a week that the Wii U's failure isn't a topic in these forums in one way or another