Vena said:
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Price - Nope. Gamecube was the cheapest and failed horribly
Casuals - A common myth pounded into the heads of the easily impressionable hardcore by the industry but false. I believe the oldschool/retro/lapsed gamers contributed far more to the Wii's success. This is because it stripped the "fluff" of gaming that had turned many of these people off (cutscenes, dialouge, overly complex control schemes) and returned to pure core gameplay. Yes, there were also plenty of "new" or "non" gamers that jumped aboard but the term "casual" is a stupid terms because many of these people play games in one form or another on a regular (non casual) basis, and/or have gone deeper into more complex games since.
Nintendo titles - Partially true. More acurately would be the RIGHT Nintendo titles. You had the quality core titles like Smash, Galaxy, Prime, etc, coupled with the bridge type games like Mario Kart, NSMB, DKC, along with ground breaking fresh types of games that lured new gamers (and aforementioned oldschool gamers) in like Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Wii Play. Gamecube and N64 also had Nintendo titles. The difference was, THOSE Nintendo games appealed mainly to the Nintendo hardcore, rather than the mass market.
Hackability - Doesn't explain why Wii has such high software sales (another common myth the hardcore loves to spout is that no one bought the games, but it is again, completely false)
Basically Wii brought gaming back to its more simple and appealing arcade roots, while simultaenously introducing fresh concepts that brought in the mass market.
With Wii U, you get a sense that it's really more similar to Gamecube with niche titles like Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Zombi U, Zelda WW, etc, with a Wii overlay.
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