Has the Wii U irreparably damaged Nintendo's image?

[AlfredoTurkey]

Scoobes said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

spemanig said:

He didn't ask if the wii u was a hot seller.

You're not old enough to really know just how much core gamers mocked Gamecube. I was there, I know. If you think Wii soured that demograph, you're wrong. It started with N64 and slowly went down hill, ending with Wii. But the Wii certainly wasn't where it all started to go wrong with regards to core gamers.

It started before then. Sega sowed the seeds with the "Nintendon't" ad campaign and Sony came in around the right time with third-parties to capitalise with PS1 vs N64. Of course, since then Nintendo haven't done anything to really change that image which they could have done over the years if they were so inclined.

This is true. The seeds were planted during the SNES days but, the SNES won WW with ease so, I don't know if it's accurate to say the ACTUAL slide started there. I mean, DKC was the biggest game on the market in 1994 and that was a Nintendo exclusive.