Miyamoto Expains Why Wii U has Failed

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NoirSon said:

HandofPrometheus said:

Another reason was the lack of interesting games to appeal to non nintendo fans. Nintendo just keep releasing mario crap that non nintendo fans dont care about his games release somethin new and breathtaking. A good example of this was splatoon, bayonetta 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles X which surprisingly did good in catching people attention.

To degree this true but Nintendo did publish the upgraded port of Ninja Gaiden 3 with Wii U. Their biggest problem was that they didn't ADVERTISE it and some the other 3rd party games at launch. Imagine instead of seeing a lame neon Hollywood squares commercial with families, you saw a commercial focused on ZombiU. Or one that showcased Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's edge as a Wii U exclusive (which would have been true at the time) or some of the other 3rd party ports they had at the time.

 

Nintendo had games lined up for the traditional gamer but they failed to market them and thus the games failed to move units and now the perceptions are that no one cares. It isn't all on Nintendo in terms of other 3rd party publishers but in cases were Nintendo could help they should.

Eh ... they had Zombi U ... which had middling reviews and quite honestly was never going to be a big time FPS franchise. I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't get this, but MULTIPLAYER is what makes the FPS genre go. GoldenEye understood this so does Splatoon (finally), but Metroid Prime and things like Zombi U never will be big sellers in the same way because they are essentially single player games. 

Ninja Gaiden 3 ... lol, was an extremely mediocre game. I think they just picked it up as a favor to the guys at Tecmo that are close to, but it's probably better they didn't advertise that one. 

They had nothing really though that was going to make a PS3/360 owner go "oooh, yeah I'm totally ditching this platform that has 50 different FPS games to play Zombi U".