re: Fils-Aime: an artist at saying a lot without saying anything

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This is why the n64 had cartridges

why the GameCube used those to tiny disks and did not play DVDs

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Wrong on all three counts here. They used carts and the mini optical disks /c those were both proprietary formats that 3rd party publishers had to pay Nintendo to use.

They didn't have a DVD player on the GCN b/c they didn't want to pay Sony to have one in there due to their experience w/Sony being a terrible partner during the SNES days. First, they sneaked a proprietary piece of hardware into the SNES sound chip that forced companies to pay Sony to access the full power of the chip. Then they were trying to essentially steal Nintendo's IPs and the SNES out from under them when they were working on the Playstation together by hiding specific language deep inside the deal. This is the same reason the Wii can play DVDs if you mod it via Homebrew channel but couldn't do it right out of the box.

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why Windwaker was developed

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Windwaker is a top 3 Zelda game and has aged better than all the 3D games in the series specifically b/c they went with cel shaded graphics.

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and why the Wii U exists.

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It exists b/c they were trying to innovate like they did with the Wii. There were two big mistakes with the WiiU launch. Neither of those involve the tablet controller or making a system that was not as strong as the One or PS4.

Mistake #1 was not clearly differentiating the WiiU from the Wii. Even today I still find people who flat out don't understand that the WiiU is a new system and not just an extra controller for the Wii. Naming it Wii2 or coming up with a non Wii name would have done wonders.

Mistake #2 was listening to the whiny 3rd party game developers who constantly bitched about never being able to get sales of their games vs Nintendo published games. Nintendo said ok, we'll hold off on releasing some of our bigger series so you guys can establish your stuff at launch. Ubi, Activition, EA etc then proceeded to once again put minimal effort in their WiiU iterations of their series which predictably led to lower sales. When you go ahead and tell gamers that a specific system is not getting things like DLC, constant online maintenance, and ship games 6-8 months later than the versions on the other systems you aren't going to sell said games at a solid clip.