So, I just thought about the sales and reasons for each console this generation (I know there are MANY threads already) and what nintendo could have done better.

My conclusion is, that a wii u with similar hardware as the ps4 would have won this generation easily.

I got some reasons for that:

- X86 CPU would make ports and third party support alot easier

- Because of the weak wii hardware, it would still be possible to emulate wii games on an stronger, x86 based wii u. It could be done pretty similar to dolphin emulator. Bringing a new console that run all wii games but in 1080p could helped alot in my opinion.

- Getting Nintendo exclusives and third party games like gta, skyrim and co would give nintendo the strongest lineup ever.

I think a strong wii u (same releasedate as ps4/xbox one) with similar hardware for somethink like 500 bucks would be easiy no1. Third partys would probl bring their games much more to this console as they did to the wii u. Many people didnt saw any sense in getting a wii u on its release, mainly because you could get the same game expiereince scince years by microsoft and sony and most people already got their console. Thats why alot of the third party didnt want to take the risk to bring the games on the console (the wii u got almost no hype). And later this was the reason, many people dont got the wii u at all (because many games missing) or just as a 2nd.

Also i dont think the high price would hurt sales in any way. Many people who got the wii u are using it as a secondary console, so their overall costs for the wii u are even higher (eg wii u + ps4) as if they just could get 1 single console. The bad wii image (kids, casuals) could be revised with strong hardware.

Your thoughts?

That's not a prediction...

3rd partys dont like nintendo because nintendo sales to much software...

If they did make it stronger, maybe it could have, but at 500 USDs, I highly doubt that would happen. And Ninten would have to get 3rd parties on board, as well as better marketing. The Wii U marketing has been outright terrible.

First off all, that's not a prediction, second off all, nope.

Wii U would have meet the same fate even if it had a NASA CPU.

no. the lack of power isnt the only reason why the wiiu flopped.

well nintendo got most third partys already on board (ea, ubisoft, acitivision). But they all left, main reason is for sure bad software sales (maybe ea and nintendo broke up yeah, but thats probl not the main reason. Main reason was 30k sales on fifa, mass effect and nfs). Almost every gamer had a ps3/xbox360/low end pc on wii us launch, so there was 0 demand on third party titles on this console, if they just offer the same graphics

I agree that nintendos marketing was very bad, but microsoft doesnt do alot better. And even sony wasnt either that good in marketing. I think sonys didnt even need alot marketing, having the strongest console cheaper then the xbox was enough.


The really big chance i saw nintendo throw away is really the backwards compability to the wii. They had the possibilty to switch to x86 but still hold their wii games library (and maybe even improve the games (1080p)). its 100% possible (we do all know dolphin).

If you just check all this remastered stuff for xbox and ps now a days. I think many people would be very hyped for this feature.
Also many coregames still skipped the wii. Now getting the possibilty to play zelda and co in hd + all new games. I think it could do very very very good.

No. A powerful Nintendo console might have had a better chance to win the gen, but not a more powerful WiiU.

First, I doubt third parties would have supported Nintendo as well as the other two. Most of 3rd party on Nintendo's systems come from japanese developers, that are reducing their software output on home consoles in exchange of mobile. And even if they do, the 3DS would have taken priority, as their main market, Japan, became handheld-centric. I doubt a more powerful WiiU would have convinced western studios: Ubisoft tried and went away, Activision failed with CoD sales, and EA outright boycotted the system due to Origin. If the WiiU couldn't get a port of the PS360 version of GTA V or Minecraft, a more powerful system wouldn't have gotten it either.

Second, most non-Nintendo developers don't know what to do with the Gamepad. Also, a more powerful WiiU would have been the most expensive system of the gen. The gamepad is really expensive, I'm sure it's the thing that is making Nintendo unable to "do a GCube" and making the system just 99€.

Only a couple of Nintendo titles really need power. Only XCX and ZeldaU (and maybe others in the future) wouldn't have been possible on the Wii (granted, not in HD and some specs adapted, but they would have been possible and still playable). Nintendo won't go for the maximum specs on home console anymore, they don't need it, 3rd party needs it. And, like I said, 3rd party doesn't follow Nintendo as they do with PS or XBox.

At best it would have suffered a slightly better faith than the Xbox One.