Official Nintendo E3 2019 Thread!

[SecondWar]

RolStoppable said:

SecondWar said:
Something I've just noticed that I find rather amusing is that Just Dance 2020 is coming to the Wii and the Switch, but not the Wii U.

The 2017, 2018 and 2019 instalments release on all 3 platforms, making them rare instances where a game launched across 3 generations of a manufacturer's consoles (only other one I know of is Fifa 14, which did so on the Playstation). However I've never seen a game launch on the current console, skip the predecessor whilst still releasing on the predecessor's predecessor.

Is this a gaming first?

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.

Just checked the sales charts on this site for it and maybe not so surprisingly, for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions the Wii version more than doubled Wii U version's sales in each instance. Only the Switch topped it as the leas platform for the latter 2 editions so clearly the Wii edition is drawing a crowd. 200k sales for 2019 may not be huge compared to its past but given its going to have a fairly cheap to develop it will still be making a profit. Curious to see how much the 2020 edition can sell. And maybe if Ubi keep it going on the Wii for a few more years (that would be something).