I still think the Wii U failed entirely because of the name. Parents, or even worse grandparents, are not going to pay out new console money for something they think the kids already have. If they looked into it at all many would get the impression it's just a big expensive controller for the Wii they already have.
Oh well, Wii U died in a ditch so the awesome Switch could feast on its corpse.
I've read recently that Poland's GDP per capita will soon surpass that of Japan.
Stereotypes from 70s and 80s and even 90s, when you think about it, were repeated and prolonged and perpetuated by the Internet, and the mass media, and the whole climate of 90s+. They weren't so solid when they existed. It was the reality, but the reality changes.
I mean, even in my childhood (born in 1996, so not too old) it didn't seem so weird that such things will happen in future, but the further the less likely it seemed.
Now somehow everyone treats it as strange that Sony slowly sinks too.
If they weren't, they'd probably already made a PSP Slim form factor portable PC with a Unix-like OS, general-purpose, ignoring what everyone does with Android and iOS and such tomfoolery, it would be popular even if said OS would be a walled garden worse than Apple's. Or maybe some other form factor, point being - Sony is that company that always had perfect ergonomics, they'd think of something, and very virtuous hardware engineering, so again they'd think of something.