Wii getting a new retail release in its 13th year

[Jumpin]

RolStoppable said:
Well, Nintendo paid the price for turning their back on Wii gamers. If Ubisoft is smarter than you, then you know you've messed up big time.

I've thought about this too, but the right path is always far clearer in retrospect. And it's not like they hadn't already set themselves on the trajectory for Wii U (from a software dev side) years in advance of its launch.

But people would be screaming about "I can't believe Nintendo is still focused on this ancient Wii console!" And the gaming press would think holding onto the Wii would have been about the most foolish thing a gaming company had ever done. We only know it would have been the right choice in retrospect, because we saw the horrific result of Wii U, and know Nintendo would have certainly been FAR better off continuing Wii support until the launch of the Switch. 

I'd guess that the Switch was really the sort of console they wanted as a Wii replacement, but the tech wasn't quite there.

Other options could have been a clear stop-gap Wii HD. I don't think splitting dev resources was ever a real option given Nintendo was already stretched thin.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 27 June 2019