| RolStoppable said: I think the concept was very clear. "We aren't doing that Wii Remote stuff anymore, so better get used to games being made for dual analog controllers again." If Nintendo had had any lick of sense, they would have realized that that is an incredibly stupid concept. You do not follow up your biggest success by rejecting said success. |
Nintendo fans love to say this, but it's really just a deflection. The fact is the Wii U embraces the Wii's success. It's named after it, almost confusingly. It follows the same exact HW model, underpowered, cheaply priced (compared to the competition) HW with a controller made to appeal to casuals. Casuals Nintendo knew were moving over to phones and tablets.
Another thing you seem to want to ignore is the fact that the Wii was basically a fad that lasted about 3 years, the it thing casuals had to have. After that its sales started dropping like a stone and became something people only bought on Xmas for the kids. That's why it started out higher than the PS2, but failed miserably in passing it (something a lot of Nintendo fans thought it would definitely do early on), selling slightly above 100M units.
So, no, another console that used the Wii controllers (even though the Wii U does for some games and for all multiplayer games) would not have done any better. Casuals were done with the Wii-mote halfway through last gen. And core gamers were not going to be satisfied with a console that was barely stronger than their last gen console and didn't use a standard controller.
