The WiiU was not the evolution of the Wii, it was...

[Magnus]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

oniyide said:

Sure they did. I personally expected them to try to catch lighting in a bottle again and capatalize on another "unique" controller gimmick. Which is what they did only this time people didnt care about the pad like they cared about the Wiimote. What were other people expecting? A Wii 2? That was never gonna happen especially when sales started to dip on the original.

Ninty was both genial and shoertsighted with Wii, it should have launched it with the higher precision and full 3-axes Wiimote Plus, that having actually been launched later enjoyed scarce support as 3rd parties didn't want to lose tens million potential buyers of their games, but had it been standard equipment since the start, it would have brought three benefits, attracting more hardcore games and gamers of a new kind, hardcore motion games with more realistic (and less forgiving) simulation and immersion, delaying the moment existing users got tired of the system and thanks to all this extend the life and increase lifetime sales of Wii. Fully using Wiimote Plus selling potential could have probably given Wii additional sales greater than Wii U lifetime ones, and without the need to develop another interim console. Ninty could have directly developed NX totally skipping Wii U, and what's better, leaving 7th gen still being strong, with a winning image, without the Wii brand name getting tainted and tarnished by falling before its competitors after having so easily overwhelmed them for years.

Nintendo said that the technology for the Wii MotionPlus just wasn't ready in 2006. They should have definitely have launched the Wii U with the Wiimote Plus instead of the gamepad, though. I have no idea why they thought the gamepad would be a hit.