Will the "Wii U" Be Able to Compete?

It seems evident that the "Wii U," as it's still called (name change eminent), has the power comparable to that of the current systems or only a little better.

We all saw how well the Wii was selling when it first came out and how Nintendo was doing well, because it and some other publishers were putting out good games for it.  The problem was that it was primarily Nintendo putting out the good titles and other publishers were slipping away.  Either the games from other publishers got worse or Nintendo couldn't keep up game quality.

Either way, you have to admit that part of it's early success was it's brand new control scheme and orientation around family gaming as well as classic gaming.  But publishers didn't want to make more games for it that were good, because all their focus was on games for systems pumping out better graphics, physics, and general game play that would require more horse power.  It's not the the system wasn't good.  It seemed to be that Nintendo should have kept up their system horse power, while developing the new motion control system.  This would have made the system more expensive, but how much more than the other systems.  Maybe not so much.  Maybe they should have kept up.

But you can't argue that the system was initially successful.  All of the same goes for the 3DS.  Sure their games are fun, but how much longer can the fun last?  Again Nintendo developed a system to have glasses free 3d, but only making it as powerful as that of say a Playstation 2.  Maybe better, maybe the same.

With the "Wii U" being only as powerful or maybe only a little more powerful as the current, but aging systems, how long will this system keep up, once a new XBox or new Playstation come out?  I think a lot of ports of current games will be on it, but this will not drive sales at all, as most people have the current gen systems already.  Why buy a "Wii U" if your Ps3 or 360 can already play that?

New controls will drive the system a little, but other publishers will need to make good use of the new controls, otherwise people are going to say "Big whoop.  My 360 can play that game without a screen on it's controller."

So Nintendo.  I wish you luck.  I do have faith in you, but it's not a lot.  I know graphics don't make games, I know real life physics don't make games, but you need to compete.  If you put everything all on these new controls, people and publishers are going to be confused as to what to do with them.  You're going to have to make a system that can stand up powerful enough and demonstrate to everyone why your system is so great.