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Soundwave on 04 September 2015
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:


Have any of you guys acutally played the system with casuals? I have casual gaming type friends that are over all the time. 

I explained the Wii U to them. Demoed it for them. We played Nintendo Land and Mario Kart 8 for a good 2 hours. So there's no way there could be any confusion.

They enjoyed it even.

Yet of like 8 or 9 different friends (casuals) I've done this with ... *zero* have gone on afterwards to purchase the system themselves, even though all but one of them own a Wii. 

There's a bigger problem here than just the marketing and name (though neither are great ... but what's so great about names like iPhone 6S or Surface 3 or Galaxy S5). 

3DS sounds a lot like DS, it looks like the same thing too, yet Nintendo has sold a reasonable 54 million of those and the marketing for the 3DS is just as bad, maybe even worse than the Wii U. 

Problem with casualy, espacily with parents who buys console for their kids, is that beacuse of marketing they didnt consider Wii U like new console at all, they thought that is a addon for Wii that they already have. High Wii U price certainly didn't help for them. That is a fact.

iPhone 6s is established name for better revision of that same product, Surface 3, Galaxy S5, PS4 or indicates that is new generation of product. U at Wii U name and branding indicate nothing, just made big confusion with Wii, simply Wii 2 would done much better.

3DS, sounds like DS but with 3D, also 3DS marketing was much better than Wii U marketing its not misunderstood in any sense.


3DS marketing is crap. It should be because it's done by the exact same ad agency that does the Wii U spots. I think I've liked like one 3DS commercial in its entire life cycle. 

To a person who is not a core gamer/gaming expert, which really is the new system here:

Despite having similar branding and marketing issues the 3DS still sold at least half way ok. 

The Wii U is a fun product, but that's all it is. Just "fun". Not "wow that's AMAZING" type of response that people first had with motion gaming and the whole "oh my gawd, grandma can't play video games, but look she's playing Wii Sports ... soooooo funny!" type appeal had worn off years ago. Today anyone can play thousands of games regardless of skill level/experience because of phones, so that whole thing about the Wii brand is no longer special or interesting.

I think people also kinda figured out that jogging around the block burns more calories than Wii Fit does, and like most fitness fads, that also burned out.