The Wii U is the only console to ever baffle me

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Materia-Blade said:

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Materia-Blade said:

how? it's making money. and nintendo's only mistakes were only in marketing and development time for the first year and a half. but the wii u is in it's current situation because of unprofessional third parties.

Third parties definitely could have conducted themselves better, but I can't think of a console where more bad decisions were made by the manufacturer than Wii U. The name, the gamepad, the architecture, the power level, the type of software greenlit for it, the advertising, the price, they got screwed up on pretty much everything, commercially speaking.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii U, but what the hell was Nintendo smoking...

everything bolded was ok, the games were great.

The games were indeed great, but they weren't what the mainstream gamer wanted. And while I'm perfectly happy with it, the power level did damage its reputation and prevent it from getting PS4/Xbone multiplats.