While everyone is rejoicing over the Sony conference, I thought I'd take some time to ponder over a more grim topic. The WiiU is currently a major underdog of a system. The consensus amongst most gamers is that it is going to go the route of the Sega Dreamcast, meaning that it will have a short lifecycle of about 2 years or so and drift slowly into cult status.

Id like to not beat around the bush here and state my current thoughts about what I predict will turn out to be the biggest failure of a gaming platform since the Neogeo Pocket Color. Basically, comparing the WiiU to the Dreamcast is far too generous at this point. It is about eight months since the systems release. In eight months, the Dreamcast had a fantastic library of interesting and unique games that were all exclusive to the system. What the WiiU has are a couple of exclusives, not all of which are receiving stellar reviews. The rest of the games are third party games that are already better on other systems. Upon the Dreamcasts release, it was the most advanced hardware aside from the PC and the visuals were revolutionary. The WiiU is about to be decades behind in the hardware department when November comes around and they are in direct competition with the PS4 and Xbox One. Frankly, WiiU has neither the quality games nor the system requirements.

Indeed, a dark cloud seems to be lurking on the horizon for Nintendos newest console, especially since EA is not developing anything for it. If that sounds familiar, it should, as it was the same ill omen that marked the beginning of the end for Dreamcast. However Nintendo still has some games up their sleeves with the upcoming Pikmin and Zelda titles, though I doubt that the sales of these games alone will be enough to save this sinking ship.

Perhaps if Nintendo hadnt jumped the gun in getting this thing out so soon it could have had the chance to succeed. They should have had a launch line up that looked like the following: new games in all their major franchises including Metroid, Mario, Zelda, Pikmin etc. plus the third party games. They also should have used their unimaginable funds to invest in better hardware for their system, instead of believing that innovation and fun control schemes alone would keep their platform afloat and then not investing in exclusive titles.

But I digress. As it is, I dont imagine that Nintendo will be in the hardware race much longer but I hope that the games released before WiiUs end are fun enough to make the system a collectors treasure.