Prediction: Switch will sell over 100 million units

[Anfebious]

Shadow1980 said:

Anfebious said:

Nintendo would have benefited a lot more in supporting the Wii rather than releasing the Wii U.

It's easy to say that now. Hindsight is always 20/20. Predictions for the Wii U were all over the place in the months prior to launch. Some expressed pessimism, others optimism. But regardless of the predictions, Nintendo absolutely under no uncertain terms had to release a new console at some point, and the rate the Wii was declining meant they couldn't put off the Wii U by two or three more years. Nintendo had already invested heavily in the Wii U. The more or less final design was unveiled at E3 2011. Much of their software development efforts were starting to shift to the newer system, because that's what happens for all first-party development. Nintendo's support for the NES diminished massively after the SNES was released, and same for the SNES once the N64 was released. Nintendo stopped releasing games for the N64 before the GameCube was even released. Twilight Princess was the last game Nintendo released for the GC. Of course Nintendo wasn't going to continue to invest heavily in the Wii in the long run.

It sucks that the Wii U flopped. But the realities of console development are what they are, and the Wii U had to come out when it did.

They Wii could have sold so much more... The only good thing about the Wii U is that the Switch was made afterwards, you could say that they used the gamepad for inspiration to develop the switch.