Nintendo’s new president predicted the Wii U would fail

Nintendo has a new president who saw something about the Wii U Satoru Iwata didn’t.

Tatsumi Kimishima, the new chief executive of gaming publisher Nintendo, predicted the Wii U would fail, according to a report from the Japanese news outlet Nikkei (via analyst Serkan Toto). He noted that it is too similar to its predecessor the Wii, which is a criticism that gamers also hurled at Nintendo. But the company went ahead with the Wii U, and that is one of the main reasons its market share has fallen well behind that of its rivals Sony and Microsoft.