Illusion said:
I don't know, when I was around young families in the 2013-2015 range, most of them either still had Wii's or the parents had bought PS4's. I knew a few families that had the Wii U but I can't really say that the kids were into it the way there were into their tablets, etc and it was usually the parents who bought it because they were fans of Nintendo... That wasn't the case back in the 90's where the N64 really was the coolest thing out there for a few years. It had better graphics than the PS1 or Saturn and it really regarded as something that was "cool". The N64 was my first console and I was not a popular kid, but that year in '97 I had more friends than I could count who just wanted to come over to play Mario 64. I never saw that from kids and the Wii U. Nintendo was in really big trouble in the Wii U's era because mainly kids for the first time in decades were growing up with something other than Mario. They were growing up with Angry Birds and Candy Crush. The Switch has succeeded in bringing Nintendo consoles back into the homes which is helping to reverse that damage. |
Well it is true that the N64 sold better than the Wii U. Obviously more people were playing the system. But I never saw a young kid that didn't like the Wii U.
I wasn't going to buy a Wii U, but my daughter begged and begged for one. Her friends didn't get one, but they were always happy to come over and play. Games like Mario Kart and Smash Bros never lost popularity. It should be obvious from the Switch that these are still popular games. But these games, by themselves, were not enough for her friends to get a Wii U. Some of them didn't like the gamepad, but on multiplayer games, you can just use the Wii remote. Likewise my nephew had a Wii U and played it a lot for a couple of years. Then his parents got him an XBox360 (and then a PS4 a couple of years after that). The biggest problem that the Wii U had was lack of games, so my daughter and nephew stopped playing it around 2015-2016, because there was a lack of games. But then again, I believe the N64 had the problem of a small library as well.
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