Looking at Nintendo Consoles over the years NIntendo has been a bit all over the place in the hardware market. And even though Nintendo has one of the most loyal fanbases, most nostalgic IP, along with the most well known IP they have dropped off with the WiiU.
A lot of the things you tend to hear is the name its self was confusing and creates confusion with the Wii to WiiU. But then again, the Xbox One, Super Nintendo, and 3DS could be confusing as well under the same thought. Xbox 360 to Xbox One is almost backward, 3DS and NDS are the same line of DS and has similar looks, and NES to SNES. THough Super I believe is less consusing than any of the others.
Third parties, price point, tablet controller, as well as many others is also things we hear often. But WiiU is a traditional console in the sense that it strayed away from Wii Motes which made the Wii so popular. And how do you contend with Microsoft and Sony in the third party market? You would have to improve your image from being too family friendly and increase the power of the console to be on equal grounds as Microsoft and Sony. There is also a lot of online features that are missing compared to Xbox and PlayStation.
And then there is the 3DS vs WiiU debate. That 3DS steals market from the WiiU as being a cheaper alternative with similar games. And if thats true do you think Nintendo needs to invest in IP that isnt possible on their handheld devices?
I think there is a number of question that can be asked, but in order to move forward we need to know what we did wrong. So what did the WiiU really do so wrong that made it the second lowest selling Nintendo console in history. But before the Wii, Nintendo was also going in a downward spiral, so without a hook like the Wii had, can Nintendo succeed with another 50m plus selling home console?
| 5 | Wii (Wii) | 45.37 | 33.75 | 12.77 | 9.28 | 101.17 |
| 10 | Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) | 33.49 | 8.30 | 19.35 | 0.77 | 61.91 |
| 12 | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) | 22.88 | 8.15 | 17.17 | 0.90 | 49.10 |
| 13 | Nintendo 64 (N64) | 20.11 | 6.35 | 5.54 | 0.93 | 32.93 |
| 17 | GameCube (GC) | 12.55 | 4.44 | 4.04 | 0.71 | 21.74 |
| 22 | Wii U (WiiU) | 4.41 | 2.22 | 2.26 | 0.60 | 9.49 |
