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GuyDuke on 23 June 2015
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TheLastStarFighter said:
guiduc said:

We said it for Wii, we said it for Wii U, we say it now for NX. I count three.


No, when Wii was announced most people said "holy crap, I want to play Zelda where I can control the sword by moving the remote!" while laughing at the ridiculous price of PS3.  Wii made sense.  No one had HDTVs at the start of 7th gen, and HD gaming systems were too expensive to make, leading to high prices and/or huge losses for the companies.  Wii was a massive success unprecedented in the gaming industry.  Huge sales, huge profits.

Wii U was a different story, the market had changed.  Moderately powerful machines are more affordable, consumers are willing to pay for annual subscriptions and consumers have an expectation of certain tech levels.  The market wanted more juice (among other things) out of the Wii U and Nintendo failed to deliver.  If they fail again in this regard with NX, it will be a second time and foolish mistake.  But thus far, the market has only rejected one Nintendo console for low power reasons.

Previous to Wii, Nintendo consoles were typically quite acceptably powered.  They did have back-to-back poor media choices, however.

 

Is it REALLY all about technical issues? I might say it's about poor marketing, price point and the vulgar Gamepad no one uses or understands the purpose.

Because Nintendo got right some of the market's expectations: Miiverse is quite a good first attempt to boast a social Facebook-like network so gamers can interact together and share their experiences. And it is quite active I might say. Plus, they understood the value of having Amazon Video, Hulu Plus and Netflix as pay-to-suscribe streaming services, which are the way of the future.

Wii U is far from being a bad console. What it lacks is groundbreaking games like Galaxy, Wii Sports were. And don't tell me it was about motion controls: Galaxy would have been very fine without them. Most of the games would have been fine without them (look at DKCTF versus Returns). 

It is about a lot of factors, but high-end specs seem to me like the least of them.