The later years of the Wii did actually show a pretty bad decline in Nintendo software... or more so there was some good stuff coming for it, but at that point it was mostly used as a platform for half baked games hoping to just sell a few hundred K copies because the machine was statistically in more homes and even if the games were duff they were still more likely to sell on that console than a X360/PS3

I just mean I think the drop off the wii-u suffered was sort of in effect at the end of the Wii life, where the PS2 was still a very strong seller all during its lifetime, the PS2 was selling until the PS3 reveal and price tag made people stop and gasp... but the Wii had slowed a good deal before the Wii-u was shown.

I didn't expect the Wii U to flop the way it did. Back in 2013 I used to think that it would sell like 50 million, mess.
I ddin't expect the return of the Kid Icarus franchise in such an amazing way.

I certainly didn't expect that the PS4 would get a more powerful model.

I didn't expect the 3DS to have over 80% handheld market share

I didn't expect Wii U to suck balls in terms of sales

I didn't expect Cloud to be in Smash

I didn't expect that 2 letters would drive the internet insane, you know what those 2 letters are.

I didn't expect PS4 Pro to be so underwhelming

I didn't expect Mario Kart 8 to be my favorite game this entire generation.

I didn't expect Dragon Quest VII to come to America on 3DS

I didn't expect Pokemon Go would become one of mobile's most popular games...oops, Niantic is supposed to say that.

I didn't expect Xbone to trail behind the PS4. I really expected a neck n' neck race.

1. Didn't expect the indie explosion (rocket league huge success for example).

2. How shitty No Mans Sky turned out

3. Xbox One Backwards compatibility

4. PS4 Pro and Scorpio

5. Halo 5 to not reach 90 on metacritic

6. Another attempt with Microsoft and PC games

7. Microsoft supporting blu-ray better than Sony

8. Totally Wii U flop

Are you sure? I would argue there were half baked games made for its entire life. For the most part there were just a lot of WiiSports/FIt me too games and lot of ports with tacked on motion controls in its first few years. Of course those games would be more likely to sell on Wii than on PS360 even with Kinect and Move but a lot of multiplat games did better on PS360 sometimes even by a large number. (COD comes to mind)

Yeah your 2nd point is very true.

I'm fairly pleased with the relatively small amount of trolling here :D

Maybe this forum does have a chance.

I didn't expect to go from barely knowing what persona is to a massive atlus fanboy over the course of 6 months.

I didn't expect half gen consoles to be a thing.

I didn't expect federation force or anything about the state of the Metroid franchise.

I didn't expect both the Wii u and ps4 to be disappointing.

I didn't expect Nintendo to release a dead on arrival handheld then manage to make it do a 180 over the course of 6 months.

I didn't expect sony to drop the Vita like it was on fire.

I didn't expect CoD to still be a big deal in 2016.

I didn't expect assassin's Creed to take a break

I didn't expect everything about Splatoon

So the thing you didn't expect in the 8th gen was less trolling on vgchartz?