| RolStoppable said: It has to be a first, because it's incredibly rare to begin with that a game launches across three generations of consoles. Some random thoughts: More fodder for the thought experiment that Nintendo would have been better off by sticking with the Wii for ten years and then proceed to launch Switch instead of having the Wii U exist at all. Interest in Wii games remained for many, many years (besides Just Dance games, Mario Kart Wii shipped another 100k copies in the fiscal year ending March 2019), so all Nintendo would have had to do is to release the games that were made for Wii U on Wii in order to bridge the gap between 2013 and 2016. While third party support for the Wii would have been sparse during those years, it's not like the Wii U could boast with a healthy lineup. But considering how little the Wii U sold, an aging Wii would have more than matched that while being in a good financial condition. But obviously, a much better alternative is the launch of a better console than what the Wii U was. A proper continuation of the Wii concept - therefore improved motion controllers instead of the non-motion controller the Wii U had - with a multitude of other natural evolutions would have been the way to go. But whatever, the mistakes have been made and are history, so an alternate history would have not resulted in the Switch console that is on the market now. "What if" scenarios lose a lot of their value once one remembers that there aren't exclusively positive consequences. |
Tbh I think it would have been better to do both support the Wii for longer which gives you time to handle the successor a lot better some would argue that it would mean we wouldn't have Switch but my view is that NS was always on the way as they had the NX concept already two years into the Wii U's life they just intended and hoped to launch it later after a platform that performed better.
