I love the idea of the Wii U: about the size of an Iomega Zip Drive dipped in glossy black — a trifle bigger than the Wii, but still half that of the competition’s comparably desktop-like boxes; a ...

This could have been Nintendo’s year — should have been Nintendo’s year. And in a sense, it was Nintendo’s year, though it took some doing to get here. No one was supposed to buy the company’s shiny ...