Mr. B Natural
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That the Wii U is underpowered (and it is in comparison to its upcoming competition) has *nothing* to do with what actually sells consoles. It is NOT hardware. It IS software. That's a fact, and it has been proven over and over throughout gaming history.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39702565&postcount=19
It has been proven this generation that hardware gimmicks boost sales more than software does or, at least, that hardware gimmickry can be just as good as a system seller than any software. Nintendo Wii sold not because it had mario in it (the gamecube had that as well) and not because it was underpowered, but because of motion controls. Same for kinect. Huge success, kept the 360 alive while everyone else is fading.
There's a reason why Nintendo showed what it did at E3, and it's not because they agree with you. There's a reason why the 3ds is a 3d...s. There's a reason why nobody thinks Microsoft is abandoning the kinect any time soon and there's a reason why the Wii-U is a tablet thingy. There's a reason why nobody is banking on traditional gaming to the extent that it did last generation with the Xbox, PS2 and gamecube. The ds, and more so the Wii, proved the software > hardware argument not necessarily wrong but definitely left it open ended.
Gaming, by the way, is way too young to have its "history" prove something. This isn't plate tectonics. Things are shifting all the time and quickly, and it's really hard to predict because we have pretty much no data to predict it. Pachter gets a lot of mockery here in Gaf, but his job is a bitch.