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Miyamotoo on 29 March 2018
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Barkley said:
Miyamotoo said:

But fact is that Wii wasnt decline and that Wii exist, @quickrick specifkly ignored Wii sales and said that reason why Wii U sold so bad is because Nintendo home consoles are in decline, saying that Wii was just light in bottle and ignoring reasons that lead to Wii U being Nintendo biggest fail. There are specifk reasons why Wii U is biggest Nintendo fail, why Wii sold so much and why Switch is selling so great now, that dont have anuthing with "trend decline" of Nintendo home consoles.

I agree it is a gross simplification, and that the existence of the trend doesn't necessarily have any impact on actual sales or potential sales. That there are many reasons and factors for a systems success or failure, regardless of it's value however, the statement or trend is still correct.

But yes, I don't agree with Quickrick that "only reason it failed because there simply wasn't a market for a dedicated nintendo home console". There were many much bigger reasons at play.

I do agree with him that Nintendo wouldn't have developed a unified system if they had two separate systems selling gangbusters though. After all they'd never have followed the Wii and DS with a unified product, as a single system could never do as well as the DS and Wii combined.

Thats a point, Nintendo start talking about unified platform only 2 months after Wii U launch (at that time Wii U had good launch). Nintendo was struggling with supporting two totally different platforms in same time in modern age and they couldnt folow Wii and DS with unified platform because technology wasn't there, they also talk about that, they basicly said they always had plans for something like Switch but that wasn't possible before because tehnology.