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Miyamotoo on 01 January 2017
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"Another Wii U disaster"!? I hope before you made this thread you are aware about few things about why Wii U failed so hard, and whats for now it seems different with Switch compared to Wii U:

1. Wii U has terrible reveal, weak and misunderstood marketing, and bad naming. People even in 2013/2014 thouth that Wii U is some kind of addon for Wii and not new console.
-Just 1st Switch initial 3 minute trailer is done great and much better job about all that than Wii U on two E3s and few events.
2. Wii U concept was not appealing, made confusion and come on market too late.
-Switch concept is great, very interesting and easy to understand. It's basically hybrid that in same time aiming at home console owners and handheld owners, so we are talking about two markets for selling.
3. Wii U had very weak launch and 1st year lineupe with constant game droughts.
-It seems that Switch will have incomparable stronger launch and 1st year lineup without any droughts. We basicly talking about one best 1st year line up for any Nintendo console, with new 3D Mario, new 3D Zelda, Pokemon, great and strong Wii U ports/remasters like Mario Kart, Splatoon and Smash Bros, offcourse some other new games we don't know anything about.
4. Nintendo support for Wii U was weak because they also needed to support 3DS in same time, because it was their 1st HD console, and at end because they realised its failed so they moved projects to Switch.
-Switch is becoming only Nintendo console on market that will basically have full and undivided Nintendo support (not like before separate support for console and handheld platform). That basically means much more games than Wii U had and full focus and Nintendo attention to just one console.
5. Wii U had much higher price than competitor. Wii U had around $100 higher price than in that time very popular PS3/Xbox 360.
-Switch rumored price saying $250 that's $50 less than official prices of XB1/PS4.
6. Wii U hardware/tech even in 2012. was very old and that was not easy to work with it. It didn't even supported some engines that PS3/Xbox 360 supported like Unreal Engine 3, and for instance received Unity support very late. Of Course that had effect that Wii U didnt get some multi platform games.
-Switch has very modern tech/arhitecture, actualy more modern than XB1/PS4 tech architecture. It has support for almost all engines like Unreal Engine 4, Vulkan.. And because all that, developing/porting is much easier compared to Wii U.
8. Switch initial list of partners and supporters is bigger than Wii Us.
8. Everything about Switch is way more positive that it was for Wii U, reactions on 1st Switch trailer are very positive.

I agree with lots people who already said that was better to wait 12. January before making this thread, but IMO its not at all realistic to expect that Switch will be "another Wii U disaster" with thingsI wrote, actually Switch has pretty good chance to be very successful.