| Yerm said: simply put, the Wii should not have even been a console. it was originally planned as a Gamecube add-on but was made into its own console after the Gamecube was shown to be selling poorly. it had underpowered hardware and a huge emphasis on motion controls, and companies were more in favor of using the Xbox 360 and PS3 to make games for due the extra power and more traditional controls. this caused Nintendo to try shifting their focus onto casual markets which did not turn out well, and even today despite the Switch being their most powerful console to date and a marketing success, it still is vastly underpowered compared to other consoles. after the Wii, they never really recovered |
This is a very insightful and on point comment, thank you.
People sometimes forget that prior to the Wii, and especially in the NES and Super NES era, Nintendo had systems that were every bit as powerful and capable as the competition. That all changed with the N64, after which every single Nintendo console had some odd limitation. With the N64, it was cartridge based when others were moving to discs (this decision was understandable at the time because Nintendo wanted to avoid load times). With the GameCube, however, Nintendo went with their own proprietary disc instead of DVD because they were afraid of piracy. It was one of the most moronic decisions in video game & entertainment history, as Nintendo lost many millions in unit sales to customers who wanted a machine to play DVDS and avoided the GameCube. Fewer 3rd party games came to the platform, and we all lost because of this decision. I am still bothered by it today, not just because it was arrogant towards customers, but also because it was so stupid and predictably so.
