Holy crap, I never said the gamecube to wii wasn't significant. I was making a point that I could just call a Wii a glorified Gamecube with motion controls.
And then you take all that back and blame it on the games. Get real. The games are there, 3D World is very critically acclaimed and supposedly one of the best games this year, same with Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros U, and you got games with cult following like Wonderful 101 and ZombiU, and a remake of a very popular game in Wind Waker, amongst all others. You can't blame "same old same old" when the damn Wii had Mario Kart, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Zeldas, Kirbys, etc were on the top of the charts and moved a LOT of Wiis. In fact, NSMBU has an attach rate of 60%. That is DAMN impressive, for "another Mario game". And why is being a Mario game have anything to do with its quality? Mario games are KING of game design and level design since the NES days, there's a reason the series is still big. Milked or not, the series sells, so you can't go say that it doesn't. (Or say only kids or elders play it, lol.)
It's not the games, it's the name. The Wii U is awfully confusing to the general audience, there are so many people who think it's just a controller add on to the Wii. There's evidence to that, but no evidence regarding this stupid "it has no games" argument.