What should Nintendo have done instead of Wii U?

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Wman1996 said:
It would've been too early for the hybrid concept in 2012, as Tegra X1 was still several years out.
Either give the Wii U a better name and better marketing, or just make a normal console. Nintendo's 8th Gen console didn't need to be as powerful as the base Xbox One, but make it much more capable than the Wii U ended up being. Even with Wii backwards compatibility, don't have a GamePad for new games. And with this console doing better, Switch can be put off until at least 2018. This also means the Switch will have to have higher specs, as the Wii U replacement in this case would have higher specs than the Wii U.

The WiiU is a Hybrid console, it can be played off-screen remotely independent of a television.

Mr Puggsly said:

The Wii U didn't have a notable game to launch with, but X1 and PS4 launch titles weren't amazing either. Switch relied on a cross gen game and so will the next Xbox.

I think having a game like Breath of the Wild at the start of the console cycle rather than near the end and then having it ported to Switch would have helped significantly I think.