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Soundwave on 28 March 2017
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Pyro as Bill said:
Soundwave said:

Skyward Sword would have to be repurposed to work without the motion controls if neccessary, but it would've been better off as a launch title for the Wii U.

The fact that it didn't sell that great even on the Wii shows though that people were abandoning that platform and that brand like crazy. That's the other benefit Switch is, it gets to start fresh with "cooler" branding, by 2012 the Wii brand had grown toxic and become associated with soccer moms. 

You're saying the second highest selling game on the WiiU, over 5m, moved less consoles than a game that only sold 4m on a 100m userbase because of 'cool branding'.

People were calling the Wii a casual system from the get go even though it had Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 in it's first year.

Wii had a lot of core games its first year. 

Wii U actually had a more casual library from Nintendo. 

You can't rely on those games to carry a platform, sure it's great when something like Wii Sports is going supernova, but you can't rely on that. 

Imagine if Nintendo was dumb enough to launch the Switch with 1, 2 Switch and like a 2D Yoshi game as the lead software titles with the hope that 1, 2 Switch could be the new Wii Sports. The thing would be very easy to find on storeshelves right now.