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Veknoid_Outcast on 06 June 2017
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BraLoD said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

BraLoD, those are two dramatically different scenarios. By March 31, 2008, PS3 had sold almost 13 million units —nearly as many as WiiU's lifetime sales. By March 2010, PS3 had sold about 33 million units, which was 86% of the Xbox 360's 39 million (a system that had one year head start). Sony had compelling reasons to stick with PS3. Nintendo had none with WiiU, short of insulting the 14 million folks who bought one.

I think you're being unfairly distrustful of Nintendo here. They made a dud, and they decided to move on. Remember: Nintendo is a video game company only; it doesn't have other revenue streams like Sony and Microsoft. A failure like WiiU can be severly damaging to its operating budget. 

I'm not being unfair, I'm being real, they aren't moving on yet, they are reselling the Wii U, that's exactly what is happening right now.

And Nintendo is actually very well financially, have always been.

What exactly is your problem with this situation? You can still buy a WiiU. You can still buy all its games. Or you can buy a Switch, with its own exclusives, its own unique features, and some "deluxe" versions of WiiU games. This is standard operating procedure. X360, Wii, PS3, XOne, WiiU, and PS4 launched with a lot of cross-gen games and ports. Look at PS4, for example:

  • Warframe (released 8 months prior on PC)
  • Trine 2 Complete Story (released a year earlier on WiiU)
  • Flower (released 4 years earlier on PS3)
  • DC Universe Online (released 2 years earlier on PS3/PC)
  • Call of Duty Ghosts (released 10 days earlier on PS3, PC, WiiU, and X360)
  • and so on

Where is the scandal?