IIIIITHE1IIIII 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. |
Except they have been working on the Wii U since 2010. There is a reason why 2011 didn't have many notable releases besides Skyward Sword (which was probably delayed because of this game drought.) Releasing the Wii U earlier would mean taking an even lesser advantage of the Wii's high sales than what Nintendo ended up doing.
For that reason, I think the current situation is better than all alternatives.
