Miyamotoo said:
How exactly you realize this in mid 2013. when in 2013. huge number of annulment Nintendo games, just look that famous Nintendo Direct from January. This became obvious at E3 this year. |
My initial thoughts in the summer of 2012 after the Wii U had been fully revealed with features was that this could go really badly and I imagined it lacking basic appeal due to its attempt at aiming at all markets at once, this is usually a terrible strategy.
It had a decent launch window but then dropped like a stone after new year's and sold way less than anyone had ever expected, I realized that my suspicions were not only likely true; it was a lot worse than I had thought and from that point on I simply assumed that Nintendo would wake up to the same realization and never truly make an effort with the thing.
No amount of software would help it, the numbers were just so insanely low, there was nothing in recent times to compare it to in home consoles.
E3 this year? No, no, way before that. This has been obvious for quite some time now, especially with Reggie's frantic "the games are coming, hold on!" shouting and his insistence that every year will be "the year of the Wii U", and then nothing happens.
If it took this long to face the facts, people simply haven't been paying attention.
For reference, here's what I had to say about the Wii U roughly half-a year before it was released:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4619667
I'd say that's a fairly good assessment of the way things turned out.
