Who exactly was Nintendo's primary target audience with the Wii U?

[Ganoncrotch]

The kind of gamer who is perfectly fine with sitting down with a console which had less internal storage available to games than my N-Gage had but they countered that by not daring release games for it at a rate where you might need to have more than 1-2 of them installed and updated at the same time.

Also in terms of power they seen that the main rival in terms of power for the Wii was the PS3 and Xbox360 so they designed the console to be marginally more powerful than those systems (in some aspects, not harddrive again QQ) was just a shame that the X1 and PS4 were coming around the corner with upgrades for 3rd party games such as 16x more RAM under the hood than their older brothers, basically instantly murdering the idea of easy ports to the Wii-U of games directed at the Core gamers they hoped for.

And finally it was aimed at people who would be fine to just sit and wait while they fumbled about, a 2015 with less than 20 seconds of the Wii-U Zelda game shown, a 2016 with the sad news that game isn't coming til mar 2017 and even then... the Wii-U will be the inferior place to play the thing, a sequel to the 3DS handheld Mario Title.... A Toad game! a 3 year in the making reboot/remake of Lylat Wars,

Damn... this got ranty, I think for me the Wii-U itself was not the issue in terms of Power/Gamepad though, I think the number 1 issue which happened to the Wii-U was Nintendo simply were not able to support a HD console, the jump to designing worlds with assets over 480p clearly dealt them a major knock and if the NX is going to be a true 1080p system I think unless there is major changes... or recruitment going on at Nintendo, expecting it to have anything other than a trickle of games is foolhardy.

(Unless it ends up having that 3ds cartridge port rumour which was going around the place and on day one it literally allows you to play the entire 3ds library on the big screen possibly with tidied up AA added everywhere to keep the image bearable on the big screens, that would be one amazing library on day 1 of a console.)



TL:DR - Ninty failed at HD games, utterly failed.