Nintendo is screwing those who bought a Wii U

[Ganoncrotch]

0D0 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Including the Virtual Boy, the Pippen, Sega Saturn, the Ouya, the Ngage, The Vita... heck even the GBA had as short a life as the Wii-U if not shorter.

But yeah, no company has ever wanted to continue to support a console which was very clearly a fairly from the very start, that confusion that it was just a Wii addon... people already had a lot of Wii addons, they had balance boards and golf clubs and everything, why was this addon so much more expensive and would it just end up gathering dust like the rest of them = failed system.

Virtual Boy is a joke. I believe we can't list Virtual Boy here. The others you mentioned aren't Nintendo consoles. GBA has an extraordinary library.

Read his statement, does it say Nintendo consoles?

Also while the GBA has a lot of good games, lots of them are ports, think about the Mario games which the GBA has Mario bros 2 from the NES, Super mario world, Yoshi's island, Mario bros 3, from the SNES, it doesn't actually have its own 2d mario game, it has superstar saga which is a phenomenal game, but yeah look at the games which it got, loads of them are slightly upgraded SNES ports F-Zero , Mario Kart (which even contains the majority of SNES tracks) But my point was more that the system was launched in 2001 and the DS was launched in 2004 which absolutely pulled the rug out from underneath the system and gave it a very unexpected early death.

Even look at the GBA-micro, launched in Sept 2005, the DS was already available and it sold just 2million units considering it was a beautiful little system, with a backlit screen, great rechargable battery built in... it was just sent out to die because its successor had already been released on the market which even had a GBA cart port so the software could live on even though Nintendo accidentally put a bullet in one of it's hottest selling consoles ever (Selling 80m units in the 4 years it was on the market as the primary Nintendo console.)

 

But yeah Wii-U launched in 2012, Switch comes out 2017 that be 5 years of life

GBA launched in 2001, DS launched in 2004, 3 years before it got replaced.