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curl-6 on 01 December 2013
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gmcmen said:
curl-6 said:
gmcmen said:
curl-6 said:

Nintendo and Microsoft's mistakes over the last year have handed Gen 8 to PS4 on a platter. Sony aren't the only ones who screw up.

I agree, but nintendo has been making mistakes since the N64, gamecube ,wii and  wiiu were all mistakes, nintendo chose to focus 100% on mainstream with the wii, not having a console powerful enough to get ps3/360 ports, and no real online focuse, is the main reason why the wiiu is selling the way it is.

Wii wasn't a mistake, it was a brilliant move that sold them over 100 million consoles with a per unit profit from day one.

Wii U's troubles do not stem from the Wii, they stem from the poor design and marketing choices made with Wii U itself.

it was a brilliant move but also a wasted opportunity,  had nintendo made a console powerful enough to get ports, maybe we would be looking at a nintendo console with great third party support, where gamers at actually buy the console to play third party games, and the wiiu would be in a much better poisiton, nintedo pulled off a miracle winning last gen with out great party support, but if you look at history the console with great third party support always win except for the wii.

Powerful hardware wasn't really a viable option at the time, they'd tried that with the N64 and GCN but were still outsold, and they couldn't know if motion controls were  going to take off. Attaching an expensive chipset to the Wii could have been disastrous to them, it was too big a risk.