KungKras said: N64, no contest. It was a bigger strategic disaster for Nintendo, because back then Nintendo had more to lose. But gaming-wise, it brought so much more lasting innovaton. OoT and SM64 are more important to gaming than anything on the Wii U, even BoW. |
Woah there! N64 was the bigger strategic disaster? Nintendo lost around 90 million customers with Wii U, from its no 1 home console of all time to its worst (depending if we count virtual boy). I guess maybe you are measuring lost third party support, which would sort of be accurate, but While Wii U didn’t have the drama and surprise of losing Square and others the way N64 did — it lost them anyway.
i would also point out that simultaneous to the Wii U upset, 3DS was doing worse than expected. Then again I believe the game boy business was kind of weak around N64 launch too, it seems like Nintendo likes to fail big!