| etking said: The useless, heavy, oversized and uncomfortable gamepad is the main reason. Such a waste of resources. The exact same hardware with just a Wiimote, sold as a Wii-HD would have been a mega success. |
If it released in 2006 sure, things had changed dramatically by 2012 though (thanks largely to Apple and Google).
All of Nintendo's casual franchises when you really look at it suffered monumnetal collapses in sales, even those on DS to 3DS ... so it's not even limited to the Wii brand.
The Wii brand and whole mini-game crap just ran it's course. That was never going to be popular forever, just as Justin Bieber is not going to be popular forever.
Switch is selling big numbers but without benefit of a big casual blockbuster, 1-2 Switch is not selling anything that special, in that sense it's doing something even the Wii or DS couldn't do ... both of those needed casual fads like Brain Training and Wii Sports to get sales really ignited ... Switch is doing equal or better than both at launch without that.
