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Insidb on 21 January 2017
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bdbdbd said:
Insidb said:

The market rejected the WiiU, largely due to a lack of third-party support (due to a lack of power). Developers are already saying the same thing about the Switch, and that should concern any Nintendo fan. Mechanically speaking, the Switch has a portability advantage, but the market has shown signs of significant contraction. Coupled with the high price point, relative to its peers, diminishes the value proposition of that advantage.

When the PS5/X2 launch, they'll be imporving upon more powerful home consoles. Switch's only headstart will come in the form of its portability, which may ultimately mean nothing. The Switch really does repeat what the Wii did: and underpowered system that hopes to capitalize on pseudo-novel functionality.

Firstly, there was 3rd party support when it launched. Secondly, see the double standards: first you say Wii U failed because of the lack of third party support, but the huge 3rd party support Wii had, you diss completely. Every argument you're making there is proven false by history.

Like Einstein said: insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting different results.

Lack of third-party support was a major reason WiiU failed; the games that most gamers wanted were not on the system. The Wii, as any gamer knows, succeeded on the merit of its novel motion controls, not its power or third-party support. GTA, for instance, was not on the Wii in any form. That is relatively insane and is a prime example of why Wii's biggest hits were first-party games. That's all part of my singular argument.

History is also on my side here; the top 17 best-selling games on the Wii are all first-party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Wii

Why does that prove my point? The 2 best-selling CoDs were on Wii and they don't crack that list, despite selling enough more than all but the top 5 Wii games. The aforementioned GTAs (IV, SD, and V) would have checked in as top 2, 6, and 6. There's the real history: no support, limited support, or withdrawn support, due to technical limitations.