If exclusives sell consoles, how come the Wii U failed? Also, why are few youtubers saying exclusives sell Switchs/PS4s but not Xbox Ones?

[Miyamotoo]

Kerotan said:

Miyamotoo said:

Wii wasn't portable also.

 

That went viral thanks to the motion control phenom. 

That doesn't change fact is that Wii wasn't portable and succeed despite wasn't portable (which was your main point).

 

OlfinBedwere said: 

Miyamotoo said: 

-Timing. Telasing home console only one year before PS4/XB1 launch was not best decision, only few months after Wii U launch hole market start talking about PS4/XB1 while Wii U was quickly forgotten that even exists.

Getting the console out a year in advance worked out pretty nicely for the Xbox 360, and would probably have worked even better if not for the RRoD mess. The main difference was that the 360 had a stream of good cross-generation games during its first year, a couple of exclusives (including Project Gotham 3 and various titles by Rare) that ranged from decent to good, and then got its first real killer app (Gears of War) out in a timely manner before the PS3 and Wii showed up on the scene. The Wii U didn't do any of those things.

It can out pretty nice if console performing strong from launch and has momentum, but in case of Wii U effect was opposite.