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Mandalore76 on 29 May 2019
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DonFerrari said:
Mandalore76 said:

The Wii U hasn't been forgotten though, because it was an evolutionary step towards the creation of the Switch.  The touchscreen of the Gamepad lives on in the Switch.  The ability to continue your console game if your wife/other wants to use the TV lives on in the Switch.  Successful new IP's born on the Wii U continue on the Switch with Splatoon 2 enjoying great sales and Mario Maker 2 being highly anticipated.  The amount of Wii U games that have been ported to the Switch and are selling well show that the Wii U had "a lot of good games" as well.  The Switch is basically a more streamlined Gamepad that has been fully liberated from it's tether to proximity to your TV if you need it to be.

WiiU was forgotten/hidden by Nintendo as fast as possible. And in the way you portray every console is a step to the next anyway.

paulrage2 said:

The PS3 Slim costs production was about $ 240 and the company was selling for 299. Sony lost money until release PS3 slim, after this every console sold was a surplus. PS3 sold 1 billion software and left a great legacy for PS4. When Sony released the PS3 slim the numbers at the time was only about 24 million units. But theres no denie that the console was Sony biggest mistake.

From what we know PS3 ended up at a major loss when all was said and done, probably much higher than WiiU that was early cut.

The WiiU was discontinued as a product that wasn't selling well.  But, Nintendo pushed it as best they could (advertising early on could/should have been pushed much harder though to be honest) for just over 4 years until the Switch was ready to launch.  Unlike the Virtual Boy which Nintendo dropped in less than a year.  Or Sega's Dreamcast, which was discontinued after only 1 year 7 months in NA (2 years 4 months including Japan).  The Wii U still has a "Games Page" on Nintendo.com showing release dates updated through April of this year, over 2 years after discontinuation (https://www.nintendo.com/games/game-guide/#filter/:q=&dFR[availability][0]=Available%20now&dFR[platform][0]=Wii%20U&indexName=noa_aem_game_en_us_release_des).  Wii U is still featured all over the "My Nintendo" site with discounts for software and digital content (https://my.nintendo.com/reward_categories).  So, no, they haven't "hidden" or erased the Wii U from memory.

Nintendo's consoles typically change more radically from one system to the next than "every console" by comparison.  But, to put it in terms that you might more readily accept, it was a failure that was a necessary failure to get to where Nintendo wanted to go.  Like the PS3 adding the expensive Bluray drive to pave the way for the PS4, the Wii U gamepad was a necessary step towards the portable application of the Switch.