axumblade said:
bonzobanana said:
Nothing wrong with the 'wii u' name. Sony went with playstation 1, playstation 2, playstation 3, playstation 4 without issues. Xbox then Xbox 360.
There may have been an issue with the visual similarity between wii and wii u though but not the name.
Lets not forget;
1. Poor launch games
2. minimal marketing
3. very weak performance yet high retail price
4. Gamepad controller is over-sized, poor battery life and missing triggers
5. Most wii u games perform worse than the versions on ps3 and 360 which are at the end of their life
6. Didn't come to market with a novel feature (that people wanted) like the motion controller for the wii
The reality is the wii u is only really worth buying if you love first party games and current pricing is far too high for mass market acceptance considering its not suitable for third party games. Most third party games are weak but worst of all there are very few available. There are no real surprises in how the wii u is performing at retail |
I would argue the launch games weren't poor but the dryspell after the system released was more of the problem...
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Nailed it. Nothing wrong with the launch games, but when you couple the single longest game drought ever for a Nintendo console (and that's saying something) with the highest price ever for a Nintendo console, it's no surprise why the WiiU tracked well below the Gamecube.
