oniyide said:
Soundwave said:
It had
NSMBU as a launch title, Nintendo Land (mini-game collection) as the pack-in title, Wii Fit U, Wii Party U, Game & Wario, Sing Party, Wii Sports Club, Mario & Sonic Olympics as 8 of Nintendo's first 12 releases for the system.
But no, it wasn't aimed at the Wii audience at all, lol.
There was no point in bundling the Wiimote because everyone and their grandma (in some cases literally) had a Wiimote already. But in Japan for example they did put the Wiimote in the standard Wii U (Wii Party U bundle) and it still sold generally like crap.
Motion gaming + mini-game-athons had their time and they got boring after a while.
Wii U tablet was ill advised, but it also illustrates clearly the problem with the "lets sell the console with a new controller gimmick" strategy ... people are fickle and if the controller isn't perfect, then you're basically fucked. Which means that strategy is more akin to gambling than anything else and if you gamble long enough, you will eventually lose.
So in that sense the Wii brand's collapse wasn't entirely unpredictable. |
And lose big. There were people on this very site who were saying that the Wii brand would eventually fall. People didnt want to believe
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I don't think anyone could reasonably have expect Nintendo to go back to Gamecube route, like they did with the Wii U, after the huge success of Wii.
