being 'unique' has cost nintendo every recent generation!!!!

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Nogamez said:

zorg1000 said:
This is one of the dumber things I've read, Wii & DS are Nintendo's most unique handheld and console ever and sold over 250 million units of hardware, nearly 2 billion units of software and make something like $15 billion dollars in profit over 5 years.

These devices didn't hurt their reputation, 3DS & Wii U hurt Nintendo's reputation by having awful strategies that go against what made Wii/DS so successful.

The wii didn't hurt Nintendo rep? C'mon are you in denial? If the wii brand is so strong why has the wii u only sold 10mil? Because it's associated with the wii that's why.

It's far more complicated than that, just like anything. There are a whole crap ton of reasons that the Wii U hasn't done well. One as you said is the name, not because a negative association with the Wii, but because of consumer confusion about what the Wii U is. The majority of consumers were quite happy with their Wii consoles. The Wii U had abysmal marketing, and the little bit it did have wasn't good or memorable. What was a huge difference between the Wii and Wii U? I bet you still remember the "Wii would like to play" commercials. Any off the  top of your head for the Wii U? I think I remember one, they were pretty rare, and it was essentially a clone of the Wii commercial, ya know, just to add to consumer confusion lol. They couldn't seem to garner much interst from the gaming community for the system. All that and more are reasons why the Wii U hasn't done well, and much of it is quite the opposte of the Wii.