Others have already said a lot of the things I would point out but another thing that made the Wii U suffer before the NX hype train went into high gear was that they were either creatively lazy or unambitious with most of their 1st party games. Outside of a couple of titles like Xenoblade X, Splatoon, MK8 and Smash 4, the majority of their games were just Nintendo going into autopilot with so many 2D platformers, minigame collections and sequels/retreads of established formulas without any real changes or increased content/depth. It's like they knew the Wii U was a dud from the start and decided to hold back the majority of their ambitious ideas for the Switch.







