The Wii U is the only console to ever baffle me

[The_Yoda]

curl-6 said:

Materia-Blade said:

curl-6 said:

From a business point of view, Wii U is the most badly handle major console I've every seen. Worse than the Saturn, the Dreamcast, the Gamecube.
Almost everything that they could have gotten wrong, they did get wrong. They shied away from common sense at every turn, burying their heads in the sand and pretending nothing was wrong. Only their beloved franchises have kept them afloat; any other console maker would be been Dreamcasted by this point.

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...

... Wiid