Poliwrathlord said:
Those were just some examples. Here's a few more Donkey Country Returns 3D - Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze Zelda 3D ports - Zelda HD ports Super Mario Maker 3ds - Super Mario Maker NES Remix Ultimate - NES Remix Lego City Undercover 3ds - Lego City Undercover New Super Mario Bros 2 - New Super Mario Bros U While not all of the games I listed are not exactly the same game, they are however incredibly similar, and when taking account the 3ds's cheaper price it's easy to see why a game like Smash Bros for 3ds could really hurt Wii U's sales as a copy of Smash 3ds and the handheld itself would only cost you $140, whereas if you wanted to buy the Wii U version and the Wii U to play it on it would be $300 + |
Still only very few games, it doesn´t even reach 1% of the 3ds library, which currently has 1254 games. And most of them are different games, even if they´re on the same franchise.
What I mean is that the 3DS library had way, way more to offer than the WiiU library. There were a ton of Jrpgs, puzzles, strategy games, rhythm games, visual novels, applications etc. The 3ds even had ports of stablished fighting franchises like Street Fighter, Tekken, Dead or Alive, BlazBlue..... The WiiU failed because its game library did not have much to offer in terms of variety. Game releases were sparse, at best.
That´s not to say that the WiiU did not had great games, but their number wasn´t huge enough to generate interest among non-Nintendo fans.
See how the 3ds is still selling around 60k weekly? That´s not only due to its low price but also due to its library of games. This really highlights how different their library were. Apples and oranges, basically.
All other points in the article are accurate. Thankfully, the dark ages of Nintendo seems to be over
