Cardboard gate.

Stapler gate.

Well no, I’ve brought up specific things that you have not addressed like WE vs YOU strategy, Wii focusing on being different vs Wii U trying to get PS3/360 ports.

Also, supporting something and focusing on something are different things. Wii was based around motion controls, it was the primary hook of the system. Yes, Wii U has a gyroscope and supports Wii Remotes but that aspect was not the focus, the focus was on its tablet controller. Thats like saying the PS5 controller has a gyroscope, therefore motion controls are a major focus for Sony.

I’ll try to expand upon some of those points:

Wii U was not an iterative successor because it abandoned the core strategy that made Wii popular. Wii’s “gimmick” had a purpose, the Wii Remote was built around being accessible to as many people as possible and reaching underserved demographics like casual gamers and lapsed gamers. Nintendo was not trying to take PS/XB head on.

Wii U went against this strategy by making a big, bulky tablet controller that didn’t really serve a purpose. The few games that tried to do something unique with it were duds and it basically became a map/inventory screen for most games. Nintendo also went out of their way to try and appeal to PS/XB gamers by trying get multiplats, not realizing those people were either content with their PS3/360 or ready to move on to more powerful hardware.

Wii U was basically a half assed attempt to retain the Wii crowd while also bringing in the PS/XB crowd and it failed at doing both because it abandoned the core philosophy of Wii and thought “different for the sake of being different” was what made it popular and it offered no real incentive for PS/XB gamers to jump ship. It was a directionless console that appealed to no one but die hard fans of Nintendo.

I went through the whole hassle of trying to pre-order this damn thing staying up till 2am with Best Buy to order only for my wife to wake up at 8am, drive to Target, walk up to the register, and buy one.........maybe Nintendo stockpiled a lot more consoles than we thought lol

 How can you be that stupid? they need to take back all of these that ended up like that, and give them new ones.
Man I would be p***ed off, I got back home, after just buying a new console and that was the result.

Stopped in to one of the very few retailers here that still stocks consoles for about 10-30 thousand people depending on what direction some people wanna go, went in just out of curiosity, one of the agents won't give me details on stock but the stock isn't moving, a few people in and this counts online stock cause they are online and I store pick up. This place didn't have the PS5 for 2 and a half years, well they had it but everytime you'd go and check it'd be gone like Ninjas came in, in the night cause they sell online for in store pickup. I could have bought one on the spot. There's a Toy Store here that everyone goes to for these things too, I'm ring them in a bit just to see if I can fit in before they close, A place that until 2024 didn't have the PS5 stocked. If they have it then there are problems with this launch not to mention Nintendo will already have had constrained supply. Scalpers are also reducing their prices, I figure that the save ones are the ones hitting 40 above MSRP to shift them.

Nintendo fault tbf... well the fault is on the two of them, it wouldn't take a second to use some tape but Nintendo invited screen breaks here...I suppose they didn't expect staplers and if they flipped the system over it'd still be scratched. Foolishness all around. 

Nintendo's packaged all their Switch's at the very top of the box with the screen facing up since the original launch in 2017. They didn't have a reason to change that till now lol

I know you have already decided on an outcome and are working backwards to find the proof but you must see how much you are grasping at straws here.

Let me break it down.

Wii and WiiU share the same name. 

Wii and WiiU share the same PowerPC + Radeon graphics.

Wii and WiiU were literally built around a "controller gimmick".

Wii and WiiU both supported Wii controls in their games.

WiiU was literally the direct iterative successor to the Wii in every conceivable way.

You can argue all you want, but trying to rewrite history won't work here.