Global Weekly, 26th August 2017, Hardware and Software

[Shaunodon]

curl-6 said:

Shaunodon said:

You can't really count the Wii since that thing was just a worldwide phenomenon. It wasn't really so much a game console as it was the must-have entertainment product.

Of course everyone here also had a Wii, but they only had Wii Sports and if they were gamers maybe Smash, and after a few months it just sat in their closets.

Wii is still a Nintendo console, and big-name Nintendo franchises like Mario sold really well on it as well, so it seeded a lot of recognition and fondness for their IP. Stuff like Mario Kart and Smash are well known and liked.

But that isn't exactly enough to push people to buy the new systems.

I'd talk to friends and say "WiiU has all these great games, and the new Smash is coming out Christmas", and I'd get "I like Smash but I don't really care for any those other kiddie Nintendo games". Or it'd be "Switch is going to have the new Zelda and it looks really great", and I'd get "yeah, but I'd play Zelda then what else would I do with it? I'm not really into Nintendo games".

Most Nintendo titles just don't really hold a lot of weight in our region.