Soundwave on 22 March 2017
| Farsala said: I know we got graph, but what is the raw number comparison for launch consoles including switch. I still don't understand why Nintendo or Retailers would accept so much Wii U stock when it was an obvious slow start, Switch might have a chance with it being more Japan friendly. |
With both the 3DS and Wii U launches Nintendo badly bet on carry over from the DS + Wii Touch Generations/casual craze fads carrying those launches.
Nintendogs + cats was the main 3DS title, because Nintendogs was so big on DS, Nintendo figured they could sell for months with just that.
Ditto for Wii U, they figured New Super Mario Bros. U which sold huge on the Wii and another mini-game compilation in Nintendo Land had it all sewn up for them as far as a great launch.
They were horribly, horribly mistaken when the casual portion of the DS/Wii bases was not coming back and then they had to scramble to appeal to core Nintendo fans again.
