Wired: Nintendo Switch ain't for mom and pop - It's for die-hard fans

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S.T.A.G.E. said:

They have to. The little kids dont give a damn about Nintendo, and the generation who Nintendo had in the palm of their hand are all grown up. Nostalgia is everything if they dont have a once in a lifetime fad hit like the Wii. This is for the same niche market as the Wii U, except the device is actually a long range portable.

You know, Switch is aimed for the kids parents, so that the kids too would get their hands on Nintendo hardware. The market is different than the Wii U market.

Soundwave said:

I still don't buy the logic that Wii U was aimed at the Call of Duty "mature" gamer ... just because it had Call of Duty. Wii had Call of Duty too, the only difference was it was crappier because the hardware couldn't run the game properly, if Activision could have ported the PS3/360 COD games to the Wii directly, they obviously would have and they probably would have sold well. 

New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo Land
Sing Party
Ninja Gaiden: Razor's Edge (an old port)
LEGO City Undercover
Game & Wario
Pikmin 3
Wonderful 101
Zelda: WWHD
Wii Party U
Wii Sports Club
Wii Fit U
Mario & Sonic Sochi Olympics
Super Mario 3D World

6/14 games are mini-game/party game casual fare (almost half!) and there's two Mario games both of which are developed for the expanded audience.

Combined with commercials like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVmW_qM1mmg

It was pretty obvious who Nintendo was aiming the Wii U at ... they just didn't have a wonder controller gimmick that anyone cared about the second time around.

It was aimed to the COD and Fifa gamer. Everything in it was just made "better". The controller was a gimmick to lure in the "high tech gimmick" portion of the market. Minigames are very much core games (because the casual COD/Fifa gamers are the industrys core market), and it should've been easy to port the PS360 games on Wii U - only with better controls and a controller gimmick for people interested in hardware.