xxbrothawizxx63 said:
Switch is benefiting from being the single platform they have to focus on. Honestly, the numbers don't seem all that impressive to me when you consider that in prior gens they've had two successful platform they were supporting. If Wii U had a 3rd party hole in its 1st year, Switch has a damn chasm imo. Oh, but indies. The scene is bigger and Switch is benefiting from initiatives and attitudes started during the Wii U era. The Switch has a more appealing concept, but the Wii U's gimmick wasn't anywhere near useless. Nintendo poorly communicated the benefits, but I did agree that the marketing has improved dramatically. They also learned that people don't like a slow, bloated, OS. What an amazing revelation...and they cut a ton of features to do it. I don't know how you're getting the idea that the Switch is a continuation of the Wii. The Wii U was literally the Wii's successor and named so despite being based on a completely different concept because they were carrying over may of those philosophies. I'll concede on this one though. I'm just annoyed they're still getting so much wrong. |
Of Course that Switch is benefit from that, I mean you cant make hybrid console if you still have seperate platforms. Actualy they rarely had two successful platforms, GC and N64 couldnt exactly be called successful platforms, not to mention Wii U, so we talking about 3 from last 4 platforms. Switch is still one platform, not two, and sales numbers for HW and SW are very good.
But multiplatform games are not what selling Nintendo hardware on first place, Wii U had actualy very good 3rd party support for Nintendo system in first year, Switch had much weaker first year regardless 3rd party support and yet destroyed Wii U sales and passed Wii U LT numbers in less than one year. Zelda BotW, MK8D, Splatoon2 and Odyssey in first 9 months are titles that made huge difrence compared to Wii Us first year. But totally opposite to Wii U, where Wii U ended whitout 3rd party after 1st year, Switch is getting actually more 3rd party games and stronger 3rd party support after 1st year.
Yeah, they learned that also, and thats why they made Switch very fast, they didnt wanted any feature for launch they just wanted that play games very fast and simple, and they done that. I didnt said that Switch is continuation of Wii, but that when you look how Switch is handheld, it very similar to how Wii is handheld, great concept, great/big launch and 1st year system seller games, and great marketing/branding. While Wii U was totally opposite of that, no big/system seller games on launch and in its hole 1st year, not appealing concept and terrible marketing/branding, those all 3 main reason why Wii U failed and why Wii is success and why Switch is also success.
They doing some things still wrong, but they are doing most important things right and thats most important, sales and Switch popularity proves that.
At end its crazy to say that Nintendo didn't learn anything from Wii U failure because they actually with Switch corrected biggest Wii U mistakes, you even have Switch sales and popularity like proof of that.
