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NoirSon on 02 August 2013
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happydolphin said:
NoirSon said:

Technically, people are blaming Nintendo for being stupid in design choices. You want to coast on the Wii's fame, understanable but make the name something that the public at large can understand or the console look different from your most recent Wii redesign.

The Wii has had the most expensive accessories for a Nintendo system since the original NES, when the biggest new additiion is just the GamePad, with commercials and events highlighting that you can play it on Wii controllers and no games that weren't unique in terms of gameplay to the system aside from the under marketed ZombiU and NintendoLand does that really convey the message that this is a brand new console? I don't blame Target, this is a Nintendo problem, they seem to have made many mistakes when coming up with how to market their device while trying to recapture the previous Wii audiences and traditional gamers, they are now suffering for it needlessly because of their actions and decisions.

 

Target is a distributor. The person who made the mistake is the artist that made the flyer, not Nintendo's. It's simple.

The person who's job it is to put the proper objects on the flyer should know that the WiiU doesn't look like that if they're putting the WiiU listing.

I know it is Target's ad but I am saying Nintendo in designing the Wii U made this type of mistake too easy to occur.

This is the Wii's redesign

 

And this is the Wii U

Are you telling me that if you had to grab one off a shelf not really knowing anything about the differences of the Wii or Wii U and were given the GamePad and told to grab the Wii system, you'd be able tell that they were meant to be two completely different devices?  Heck, here is an image showing their dimensions compared to one another.

 

The Wii U is only slightly bigger then the Wii, so no I still put this on Nintendo for making a system that barely looks different from their last one, with a similar name and similar/identical controllers outside of the Gamepad.