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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Former Nintendo Indie boss says "The name Wii U is abysmal"

Former Nintendo of America employee Dan Adelman has recently shared his views on the Wii U. The indie expert formally announced yesterday that he had resigned from Nintendo to pursue other areas of interest, including forming his own independent business for indie game marketing.

In a question and answer session on the social networking platform Ask.fm, Adelman responds to a fan on whether he believes Nintendo are in a difficult and tough period. He says the console deserves to do much better, but the main problem stems from the Wii U’s name, which he finds “abysmal”. You can find answers to other fan questions here, where he speaks on his time at Nintendo and the state of indie game progression.

“Wii U is not selling as well as it deserves to. It has a lot to offer with great games you can’t get anywhere else. The value of the GamePad hasn’t been justified. But the name Wii U is abysmal. I think that cut sales in half right there.”

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/08/05/dan-adelman-says-wii-u-deserves-better-sales-but-console-name-is-abysmal/




Predictions for LT console sales:

PS4: 120M

XB1: 70M

WiiU: 14M

3DS: 60M

Vita: 13M

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I agree! The Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System would have been a much better name..



                
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Well, that's a rather click-baity title



Current Consoles: Gaming PC, Wii U, 3DS

the name is ok in my opinion but it did not help it sell. Nintendo should just re-brand it the Wii2 and get it over with



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

Gamepad made the system expensive. Name is terrible. Third party games are gone. And marketing was absent. Everything happened with Wii U.



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Putting so much blame on the name really is the easy way out here...



DerNebel said:
Putting so much blame on the name really is the easy way out here...


The name is aweful and leads to customer confusion but there is clearly more to it then that. Constant software droughts, little to no advertising, and too high price for the amount of games being released are other major reason for poor sales.



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He hasn't even been gone for 2 days and he's already bashing the Wii U



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Adameh said:
He hasn't even been gone for 2 days and he's already bashing the Wii U

He's bashing the name, not the console itself! Heck, he says that the WiiU has many great games which you cannot get anywhere else!



                
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Wii U is an awful name, but really it's not like "Wii" was all that great to begin with.

I think XBox One is even worse ... if you don't know anything about the two systems and I said XBox 360 and XBox 1 a person could easily confuse the 360 as being the successor rather than the predecessor.