The Wii COULD have been much more successful, Nintendo pulled the plug on it by ending first party support, virtual console support, and slashing the marketing on it. Nintendo was trying to force their Wii base to stop using a Wii and get a Wii U, the only problem is Wii U sucked! So most fans skipped the generation and picked up the Switch as their next console instead.
It’s as though Nintendo took the generation off, creatively. From a hardware perspective, the sleek and sexy Wii was replaced by a rippling clunky chonk with a clumsy and lumbering UI and no killer app to speak of... not even an attempt at a killer app. So Nintendo dumped the Wii for nothing. The Wii, a console with gutted services, no VC support, and no new first party software, ended up being more successful in software sales during the WiiU generation than the Wii U. It’s easy to see how NOT cutting support for the Wii would have given Nintendo significantly higher sales all around.
One of my great hopes is that even when Nintendo comes out with a successor to the Switch, that Switch continues to receive full support with lower end versions of Switch 2 games. And that those Switch 1 versions can be upgraded immediately to Switch 2 settings upon purchase of and transfer to a Switch 2.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
