Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says everyone expects Nintendo to do something "really interesting," and sometimes you get "brilliant" things like the Wii and Switch 2, and other times you get the Wii U, which "didn't work as well"

Wii U.

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says Nintendo's innovation has resulted in great consoles like the Wii and Switch 2, as well as occasional duds (from a sales perspective, anyway) like the Wii U.

Pitchford has been a vocal fan of the Switch 2, but for reasons that don't need explaining, he's been less vocal about the Wii U, which is in my opinion Nintendo's best console from purely a hardware perspective even though it was an objective failure in terms of sales.