Arkhandar

better than the retail model. 

I got an idea,

We tweet one reason we like the Wii U with a hashtag, see if we can get it trending or something.

But your idea is good too.

so....

-keeps Wii U all this time waiting for killer games

-sells it right before all the 2014 games hit

-buys a PS4 with barely any games yet so he is still waiting....

-will re-buy a Wii U. 

you sir, are a melon. 

X was a day one purchase before

Now it is day zero

Unfortunately, thinks aren`that great.

Assuming it can do 1 million worldwide, for the month of December, it will see a 700k+ fall from December last year.

If you look at Xbox360 and PS3`s December salesin the year after launch, both passed the 2 million mark.
So you see, barely hitting or passing 1 million, is not a good number.

That doesn`t mean that Wii U can`t do better this year.
From what i have been reading Wii U shipments never were that great either and they sell out quickly. Let`s hope January sees an improvement to show if sales can really increase a lot.

To be fair, Nintendo revised the WIi halfway through it's generation (stripped Gamecube compatibility) and launched XL revisions of the DSi and 3DS. There's nothing stopping Nintendo from - two years down the road - releasing a revision of the Wii u, providing that revision is virtually identical from a developer's perspective with no backwards compatibility issues with the first revision. It would be really awesome if it had room for an internal SATA drive though

I can see it happening, but not yet.

I think saying that basing a console on PC hardware is being "lazy" is very narrow minded.

The point is that costs have been constantly going up and if developers say they need thing to be easier you would be a fool to ignore them.

You also make it sound like neither Sony or Microsoft did any customisation at all which is not true.  They did exactly what Nintendo did, started with off-the-shelf designs and revised them accordingly.  The PS4 has a custom network processor and DSP, the Xbox One also has a custom DSP although arguably sticks much closer to the PC design - but as the company who makes Windows that is hardly surprising.

Consoles were custom because they had to be, PCs were very inefficient and this has slowly improved.  Nintendo stick with custom because it means exclusive titles have a huge advantage, but that is also why their key titles have taken so long to come out on Wii U.  Its also really annoyed the third-parties which is hardly a logical business decision.

So if anything, I would say its Nintendo that are shooting themselves in the foot here stubbornly refusing to change with the times.

Feverish pace lol. When the Wii U gets outsold by 4 consoles in November I wouldn't call it a "feverish pace".