| Soundwave said: No I think continuing the Wii brand was entirely the wrong move. Not just the name, the entire concept of the brand ... basically using casual mini-games to sell a platform + some Mario thrown in. And yes Wii U did adhere to that formula ... look at it's release list Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Mario & Sonic Olympics Sochi, Game & Wario, Wii Fit U, Wii Party U, Wii Sports Club, Sing Party, Just Dance ... were all available in year 1 and these are actually sequels to the biggest selling Wii games. Go and actually look at the best selling Wii software .... it's not Zelda or Metroid or Xenoblade or even Animal Crossing. Once the mini-game fad burst ... Wii 2/Wii U/Wii Willy Nilly ... they could've called it whatever they wanted. Once people got sick of the whole "shake the controller around like a goof for 2 minutes and play with grandma! Isn't this so much fun!" thing got old and formulaic, Nintendo was fucked with the entire Wii concept no matter what. They could've called it Wii 2 or whatever, it wouldn't hav made a difference. Thankfully for Switch, they realized this and 1,2 Switch is only a support title and not something that they are making as the main draw. |
Name=brand (close enough in my eyes)
I understand what you mean, but I dont view it as so black and white, all or nothing. And those Wii party U, Wii fit U are a prime example of confusing the customers. They also highlight one important thing, Nintendo didnt try to do anything new and interesting (at least apart from nintendo land), they didnt try to create a new fad, but instead tried to ride the old ones. They could have simplyfied nintendoland and focused on asymmetric gameplay and so on and made that the new thing. Now it was too complex and tried too much.
New wii sports equivalent (not wii sports 2)and wii 2 name could have made it succesfull :/ or simply launching it with a great Zelda game.
The Wii U had its own thing (gamepad,asymmetric gameplay etc.) that could have been nice enough to gather some interest and it would not have been "waggle with grandma" again.
But yeah I think that one huge mistake and wrong aproach to things overshadow the wide array smaller mistakes and problems that kept on piling. At least they didnt name Mario kart 8 as Mario kart Wii U :P
