It wasn't a bad system; it just failed to catch on because Nintendo blew their wad marketing the original Wii to people who couldn't give a shit less about console gaming, so when they came out with a new, completely separate system with almost the same fucking name -- without, for instance, "Super" thrown in there to distinguish it from its predecessor -- people just assumed that it was a tablet peripheral for the original Wii. It's also really problematic to name a gaming system after a line from Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist, Nintendo. Jesus Christ.
It wasn't a bad system; it just failed to catch on because Nintendo blew their wad marketing the original Wii to people who couldn't give a shit less about console gaming, so when they came out with a new, completely separate system with almost the same fucking name -- without, for instance, "Super" thrown in there to distinguish it from its predecessor -- people just assumed that it was a tablet peripheral for the original Wii. It's also really problematic to name a gaming system after a line from Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist, Nintendo. Jesus Christ.