What should Nintendo have done instead of Wii U?

[Shiken]

RolStoppable said:

Shiken said:
All they really needed to do was name it something else and deliver more system sellers at the same caliber as BotW, Mario Odyssey, and Fire Emblem Three houses. Also a better ad campaign would have gone a long way as well. 3rd parties really did not abandon it till sales dropped off (didn't take long), so I like to think it still would have gotten decent support if Nintendo did not lean too much on the Wii namesake and gave more system sellers.

The WiiU had some great games, but lacked a decent number of huge system selling titles.

That's plain wrong. Before the Wii U launched, more than 75% of the upcoming multiplatform games for the PS3 and 360 were not announced for the Wii U.

Seems you either forgot that the WiiU had games like...

Mass Effect 3

Ninja Gaiden 3

Call of Duty Ghosts

Assassin's Creed 4

Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition

Batman Arkham Origins

Darksiders 2

Madden

FIFA

NBA2K

Injustice

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Deus Ex: Director's Cut

007 Legends

etc

...Or you have a completely jaded view of what the word "abandoned" means, as those games would not have been there without some kind of active support.  In fact, some would say the WiiU had better 3rd party support in its first year than the Switch did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/85fcod/the_wii_u_had_46_aaa_third_party_titles_in_its/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body