piopakk on 29 May 2017
They failed because the market was saturated on the existing console generation at that time, and hugely because the Wii U was named Wii U. It was to close a naming til the Wii. Just the core gamers understood the marketing deal and the console differences.
If named differently, the Wii U would have sold much more.
Lets face it, the concept of the console was unique and attractive, but had some flaws.
The Switch is what the Wii U should have been.
Third party support vanished after they realized that consumers were not interested in the Wii U and because sales were poor.
