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Soundwave on 27 March 2014
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curl-6 said:
leyendax69 said:
curl-6 said:

It was none of those things; not a fluke, not luck, not a miracle. It was a deliberate, premeditated, and thought out smash hit.

The Wii U's struggles are due to the way it itself was handled; confusing name, too expensive, delayed software, but most importantly, a failure to account for the current market.

Indeed, which lead us to the conclusion they don't know how the video game market works. Of course I'm not talking about handhelds of course, they are unbeatable there. You may be right, wii could have been a premeditaded move of Nintendo, but doesn't change the fact that's not going to happen again.

It wasn't a foregone conclusion that the Wii U would flop. It could have been a success if they'd not made so many elementary mistakes.

It's like that scene in Jurassic Park 2:

"Don't worry Ian, I'm not making the same mistakes again!"
"No, no, you're making all new ones."


A "Wii" console without a revolutionary *new* controller method that could spread word of mouth by people just using it for 2 minutes or so was by definition never going to achieve the same success as the Wii. 

The fact that the best idea they could come up with was an uninspired kids-tablet looking thing just made the issue 10x worse though. 

Honestly in hindsight they shouldn't have tried to iterate on the Wii period unless they had an incredible controller idea to sell the package with, because without that it's virtually the anti-thesis of the Wii formula. 

They should have just made a regular console with a new brand and taken as much advantage of a one year head start as possible. 

But you just knew Nintendo couldn't resist trying the "lets just sell the entire console based on the controller again" option and had to learn the hard way (as usual).