Is the Wii U selling bad, or it just continues the trend not considering the Wii?

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well, its hard to tell really... The wii could be the exception but at the sametime, the wiiU had so many things wrong with it that for me, idk if it really just is following the trend or not. Like, Nintendo launched the wiiU at $350 making it their most expensive console yet but the hardware didn't justify the cost from a consumer point of view. The gamepad wasn't that zomfg must have thing and even though its portable, you can't really take it around the house (depending on how big/small ur house is obviously). Also, the name itself was confusing to the point where many people thought that it was just an accessory to the wii and not a brand new console!

So you have that, next you have the whole games issue. The first year had many platformers and niche games with Delays. As an example, Pikmen 3 was supposed to be a launch title but got delayed for like 6 months! On top of that, it had gimped ports where some of them ran poorly or without DLC so you had that too. Then, Nintendo didn't show up at e3 and their Nintendo Direct was buggy/laggy with consistent skips which wasn't a good thing either. Next you had a large lack of advertisements and a ton of bad press with third parties bad mouthing Nintendo with EA taking the lead and it had many more issues as well!

So for me, I feel like that the wiiU had so many other issues than just saying, oh its just following the trend cause there are just soo many issues with it that imo, it was destined for low sales regardless of the trend or not!

if you recall tho, n64 and gc were the cheapest options of their respective generation (as is the wii u), launching at $199 each (at least in north america). they still were also-rans. the gc sold worst when it was at $99. you're right, ultimately, that it was a combination of factors, but i think the one that hurt it the most was the sense that the wii u didn't have a clear identity. to be fair, at this point the ps4 and the xbone both coincide in having no identity whatsoever to distinguish them from a lower-midrange gaming pc.

but what was so great about the wii and the nes (and the ds and game boy, as well) was that nintendo knew going into it what they were going to do with it and to whom they were going to market it. they launched wii and within a year you had metroid prime 3, super mario galaxy, wii sports at launch, etc. with the wii u, and with the gamecube, and with the n64, the identity of the system was discovered almost by accident and a little too late. the wii u is only now coming into its own as the definitive party system with smash, mk8, 3d world multiplayer and a bunch of really creative indie exclusives (shovel knight, sportsball, etc.).