| NintendoPie said: Not to downplay the Switch's success, but when a company is selling you garbage and then does a 180 and starts selling something worthwhile, it makes sense. |
Yes thats point, Switch is good product.
| DevilRising said: To be perfectly fair, Wii U launched in November of 2012, and in less than two months, as in til the end of that YEAR, sold over 2 million units. In fact I remembered it being closer to 3 million. Meaning that it actually sold really well out of the gate, and had great third party support during that launch window. THEN the game releases screeched to a halt, and the system sales followed suit. And Nintendo never really recovered, both from their game droughts, or their poor marketing in North America. So yes, Switch is doing well right now, and hopefully will continue to do well. But Wii U DID also do well during it's launch window, which you could argue Switch is technically still within. There are many reasons for Wii U's failure, and one of the chief among them, is that during it's lifetime, it LACKED that one "MUST HAVE" type of game that every other Nintendo console always has. BotW could have certainly been that game, but sadly, it took them a long time to make, and once it was finally ready (2016), the Wii U was effectively dead, and they delayed it to be a Switch "launch title" instead. It still remains to be seen if Switch can keep it up. I, for one, have not been fully convinced that Nintendo has learned their lessons. The Switch may be the hot new item right now, but I also saw how they just recently handled their NES Mini debacle. Only time will tell if Nintendo has actually changed enough of their ways from the Wii U era, to continue Switch success over the long-term. |
Wii U on launch in November and December shipped 3m consoles, but right after launch period and holiday season in January started to sell catastrophic, basically just in less than two months after launch Wii U started to sell catastrophic, thats why in next 9 months they shipped only 900k consoles. Its wasnt point about games only, but point that only hardcore Nintendo fans bought Wii U on launch and in holiday season, and after that market didnt had interest at all in Wii U and Wii U didnt had any game after launch that could raise sales.
Switch is in totally different situation, it's already passed more than 3 months from launch (launch period is over) and Switch is still selling good, and actually Nintendo cant still keep up with demand, and now new system seller game are coming next month. Its very obvous that Nintendo learned much from Wii U mistakes, going from name, marketing, strong launch games and 1st year linuep, and point to keep momentum with good and strong games without big time space between them (Nintendo is relasing one stronger or bigger game evre month).
