Weak sales for Wii U

[XDelusion]

The last Generation most homes owned a Nintendo Wii and an XBOX 360, both if not one or the other. Judging by polls on popular video game sites, and the general ranting in the forums, it looks like this generation is going to be dominated by PS4 and WiiU.

 Nintendo has had a slow start, but this year things are going to pick up for the WiiU since many of Nintendo's beloved first party titles will be releasing around Christmas.
 Once that is done, many of us fan boys will be eating them up, thus pushing the WiiU's market value up, thus drawing third party devs back to the console.

 In the mean time, PS4 and Microsloth are going to have their first year of a slow start, though again, judging by the ranting and raving, not many people are favoring the XBOX this time around.

 On a side note, I think the low end, indy console market is going to be going main stream this year. Should be seeing lots of Android based devices left and right. In fact I've already got one...

JXD S7300

http://www.willgoo.com/jxd-s7300-dual-core-hd-gamepad2-dual-joystick-lr-buttons-8gb-p-306.html

Works very good... with an unofficial firmware.

[XDelusion]

If it were any other franchises aside of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid, I'd agree.
Though in the past, Nintendo has gone through this same phase time and time again, and have always pulled out of it, with the exception of the Virtual Boy and half that was due to eye strain, neck strain, and again no Zelda, Mario, or Metroid.

Personally I cant see a few titles changing things for a machine over 12 months old already. Patterns of sales have been pretty consistant (thats to say machines that flop for 12 months have yet to go on and be a success) in the last few decades and I cant imagine that'll change.
In my humble opinion Xbox360, ps3 and Wii U will compete for the cheaper, lower end machine, and ps4 and Xboxone (ridiculous name btw) will fight it out for the high end.

Despite the similarities in the systems it appears Sony's marketing machine has been somewhat more effective in the hype stage so far. I personally wont ever buy a Sony Console again after the farces that the ps3 has endured (credit card details stolen, removing features I paid for after Id already paid), but that's just me, and probably a bit off topic  

The one thing the Wii has going for it is that it as remotely interesting hardware, although thats hardly going to sell machines

I suspect the gaming pc will gain in popularity again this generation 'cos all the new machines are a bit mundane. (again, my opinion)