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curl-6 on 01 June 2019
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linkink said:
curl-6 said:

It wasn't your typical Nintendo console though. No other Nintendo console has ever had such a lack of system selling software in its first year.

I mean in terms of droughts. Nintendo banked way too much NSMWU, who could blame them, most thought the same, the wii game was a monster in terms of sales. third party support was very good, but much then anything before SNES.

Yeah, it is true they banked too hard on NSMBU, and they also undermined it by releasing NSMB2 just months earlier, so people had just gotten their fix and didn't wanna buy a crappy $300 system for another dose right afterwards.

But the third party support ultimately didn't matter; nobody had any reason to buy a Wii U for inferior versions of the same games they could get on the PS3/360 they already owned. So its short-lived third party support had no system selling power.

So Wii U ultimately didn't get any system selling software until it had been out long enough to have earned a reputation in the eyes of the mass market as a failed system with no games. 

The Switch, on the other hand, is a totally different story. It exploded out of the gate with the killer app of BOTW and followed up with further megatons like Splatoon 2 and Odyssey within the following 8 months. Software wise, Switch's output is far superior to Wii U.