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Miyamotoo on 04 September 2015
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

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.  

3DS had much better marketing that isn't misunderstood and failed, and that is main point with Wii U with parents who buying consoles for their kids and casuals. For 3DS nobody thought that is addon for DS.

I already said that one of biggest problems too was bad launch titles, Nintendo Land (even great game and personally much better than Wii Sports), did not have nearly same apeling like Wii Sports. But that was just part of the one problem (Nintendo Land with HD port of NSMB and Zombi U were pretty bad launch titles), terrible marketing (and name) and high price were also crucial problems why Wii U failed.