Soundwave on 02 February 2013
| Scisca said: When I look at Wii U I always get the feeling that this console came a year too late. Nintendo should have released this exact console for Christmas 2011. It's not like they wouldn't be able to put this hardware on the market a year earlier or they didn't have cash after Wii and DS. If they had 2 years on the market, they would be able to develop enough heavy hitters (X, Zelda, Mario, Metroid, etc.) to convince many people to invest in the console. 3rd parties would also be interested in getting to know the hardware and giving the ports a bit more love (at least better textures) and knowing that PS4 and X-box 8 weren't right around the corner, they would be more willing to actually take a closer look at the console and do something with it. With just a single year, Nintendo may not have enough time to achieve anything they planned. As it stands, I can't see a single Wii U game that I want to buy and I doubt it's going to change till the end of the year. So for me this first year is a complete bust, it's nowhere near as good as Vita's first year, which gave us a couple of must-have games. |
It hindsight yeah a fall 2011 launch would've been a better idea, but they were too busy trying to resucitate the drowning 3DS ... that's also put them behind the 8 ball, Iwata has handled both transitions horribly and put Nintendo in a bad spot.
With the Wii U now, probably they are going to have to regroup after the summer to release bigger titles.
