RingoGaSuki on 29 December 2019
The Wii U as a system was fine. It's name, marketing and games are what killed it.
People thought it was a Wii add-on, it had no big exclusives at all (SM3DW and MK8 are as close as it gets - but I'd argue they were both marketed extremely poorly to the point of being irrelevant), and Nintendo's insistence on family focused marketing killed it. Nobody wanted to touch the damn thing past it's first anniversary.
I wouldn't change anything that happened, as the Switch is fantastic thanks to lessons learnt during the Wii U's life, but it could have been so much smoother if they'd changed their strategy from the start. (The Wii U unveil is the only time I've ever seen a new Nintendo console and thought "Wow... that looks shit.")
