Miyamotoo said:
Mummelmann said:
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.
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Point of OP is that Nintendo is finished with Wii U and that are focused on NX now. I dont see how could you realise that in mid 2013. when we had huge announcements in 2013. and basically no one heavy hitter was not launched yet!?
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Developing hardware and software takes time, with the Wii U off to such a terrible start, it was no massive leap in logic to think that Nintendo would already start shifting resources and attention towards their next console and a chance for a better beginning.
I'm not saying that they decided in mid-2013 to do this, but this was around the time it became clear to me that they would have to jump out the gate next gen and it seemed logical that they would shift their attention elsewhere instead of hammering cold iron, especially with them losing money on the Wii U still.
Were they "finished with the 8th gen" in mid-2013? Not really, but as with the Sega Dreamcast; we've seen that things can move quickly when consoles sell slowly, and the Dreamcast actually sold faster, it was not such a far-fetched conclusion for me to make at the time as one might think.
