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Soundwave on 24 September 2015
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rolltide101x said:
Scisca said:


Nah, it's not the primary reason. GamePad is a nice extra and is enticing to me, though obviously they messed up with the parts - Nintendo being Nintendo cheaped out on the parts, but fast development of the industry bit them in the behind, when everybody ditched this old tech and suddenly it became more expensive than newer, better tech, making the controller expensive.

The reason Wii U failed is cause it's too weak and has a unique architecture in a world that requires as much unity as possible to cut unnecessary costs.

Architecture is absolutely nothing to do with it and power was a VERY small factor. 

The reason it failed is because the extra cost from the gamepad, people viewing the gamepad as a gimmck, and terrible advertising.

 

Nobody is going to buy a Wii U for 300$ when you can get an Xbox One for 350$. If it would have been 250$ and 300$ day 1 and was sitting at 250$ with a game right now its sales would be doubled. (50$ price cut being from the gamepad)


The Wii U did about 15 things wrong. 

But I would say the basic crux of it is this -- you cannot sell a console based on a controller gimmick if the controller gimmick isn't *extremely* exciting.

It's like saying you want to be a model when you're not good looking. That's a strategy that gets you nowhere. 

Nintendo's whole philosophy of "we'll just sell underpowered last gen hardware, but people will buy it because of a controller" was really bound to eventually blow up in their face. It was just a matter of time, no company (not even Apple) can pull a miracle out of their rear end every 5-6 years. 

They could advertise the system all they want ... it doesn't change the fact that the controller simply is not very interesting and if your business model was that you were going to somehow come up with a new miracle controller input every 5-6 years to sustain your business, then you were predestined to fail no matter what. 

Again like above if you want to be a model, then you're basically basing your entire career on your looks, so damn well better be good looking. If you're trying to sell your weaker console on the benefits of a controller, then your controller damn well better make people go "holy shit that is amazing" when they first see it.