The Wi U is shit. You're just a deluded fanboy talking out of his ass. And Nintendo stand to make far more money by opening up their games to a larger market (albeit giving a cut to Sony/MS/Valve).
Skylanders proves that cutesy games do sell (in vast numbers) on mainstream consoles. The Wii U is not mainstream, and nothing that will ever come out on Wii U will ever attain mass market penetration.
Tomb Raider sold 3 million copies in FOUR WEEKS and was a disappointment. There aren't even 3 million ACTIVE Wii U systems on the market. The Wii U is also not even going to have the same worldwide penetration rate as the Dreamcast - especially now that the world has set its eyes on the PS4/XBone.
What makes you even think that Nintendo are going to be able to profit on their games, when there is no hope in hell that their games will ever be able to rack up the necessary sales to even approach Tomb Raider levels? Plus, Nintendo lose money on their Wii U hardware.
Your argument comes off as inane. Sony and Microsoft have a very hospitable third party publishing strategy. Nintendo can (and will be given the leeway) to delay their games if necessary. And the PS4/XBone/PC architecture is a far cry from the convulated hardware that the PS2 and Saturn had.
Here's a thought for you to maybe try to comprehend: you ever looked at UPlay or Origin? People don't have to spend a penny to get that to play the latest Ubisoft / EA game. And yet they still complain, because they want the game to be under the Steam umbrella. Even indie developers who get good reviews for their games struggle to sell them if the games aren't on Steam. Sure, these devevelopers don't have to pay Valve a cut if they sell the game via their own portal, but they still lose out as people aren't prepared to have to go through that extra hassle of having to acquire the said game.
What makes you think that the mainstream will pick up a Wii U / Nintendo console, when they already have a mainstream console? And what makes you think that people will be prepared to pay for this service, when Uplay and Origin have shown how hard it is for people to want to switch over.
I see Nintendo as being the equivalent of that indie developer who isn't on Steam. Sure, they get to keep all the money, and release games at their convenience. But Nintendo is missing out, and they only have themselves to blame for their pathetic sales figures.
There is a saying: when you do something, do it well, otherwise don't do it all.
Nintendo don't do consoles well. For them to continue down this path is not only a waste of their time (and a drain on their resources), but on their audiences as well. Hell, they can't even make extra money from the license fees as no-one wants to touch them.
So yes, the Wii U is shit. And your pathetic putdown looks like the sad bickering of a deluded fanboy who has got more money than sense. Shame the mainstream doesn't share your point of view, as that probably explains why Nintendo has only accrued 3 million sales to date. Oh wait: things will pick up next year, I hear you say? Keep dreaming.
You know what's funny? I've never had a Nintendo since the Famicom. I went Mega Drive > PlayStation > PlayStation 2 > PC. The 3DS will be the first Nintendo system I'll be buying for myself this weekend. So yeah, you know where to shove that "fanboy" drivel.
Tomb Raider was a massive disappointment to Square-Enix because it did not meet their sales goal -- a goal which they based on the large budget they injected into its development. They pumped so much money into it that in order to recoup it and still get a tidy profit, the game had to sell more than 3~4 million, and when it did not, they scratched it off as a failure. Meanwhile, you have Dark Souls which, while selling "only" 2.3 million, was a commercial success for Capcom. You know why? Because they budgeted it reasonably and to expectations.
As for Origin and uPlay, are you fucking serious? Most players prefer Steam over Origin and uPlay because they are already entrenched with Steam's ecosystem. Indie developers would much rather go Steam than Origin and uPlay because of Steam's larger
PC playerbase. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, on the other hand, have their own separate consoles and the only relevance your comparison has regarding this is in multiplatforms. But here's the thing: Nintendo doesn't thrive on multiplatforms. They've basically given a big "fuck you" to third-party developers (which, I personally think, is to their detriment) since the GC games and onwards (some would go as far as to say the N64 days). Multiplats have never been a big factor in Nintendo's success. They've always relied on their first-party games and IPs. And THAT is why your whole "Nintendo needs to go third-party" is both short-sighted and moronic.
You would know all this if you've only done your homework. Which, as you've shown so far, you clearly haven't. Your problem is that you spout opinions and hold them as fact ("the 3DS WILL fail come 205!", "Wii U WILL be on life support by 2015!"), driven by your irrational hate for Nintendo's consoles. Meanwhile, more reasonable people here are playing the wait-and-see attitude. Even those who have no love Nintendo.
EDIT: Read your apology. I understand, and I accept it. It's just the level of anti-Nintendo hate in threads like this have become overbearing and, while I do not hold any real loyalty to consoles, I recognize Nintendo for being the only competitor so far that is offering something different from Sony and Microsoft, both of which are also offering good games. I don't put consoles down, no matter their performance.
Unless they do something stupid and anti-consumer. Like what the Xbone did. Fortunately, Microsoft seems to be dialing it down.
But 3D world should help a bit during the holidays
