| Mandalore76 said: What? The Wii U may have been Nintendo's biggest home console flop in terms of sales, but it wasn't for lack of trying on their part. Poor branding and poor advertising early on, yes. But "dropped like a red hot ball of iron" is being disingenuous. System Release: November 18, 2012 Some notable Nintendo developed or published games released in 3 year or later: Mario Tennis Ultra Smash (2015) Nintendo also made an effort to collaborate with other devs to share IP's such as with Koei Tecmo on Hyrule Warriors and with Atlus on the aforementioned Tokyo Mirage Sessions. They also made an effort to publish games for other devs to bring exclusives to the Wii U at the time such as The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2. 3rd Party developers may have dumped out of releasing games for the Wii U a year into its lifespan (EA never released another Madden NFL on the system after Madden 13 in 2012), but implying that Nintendo abandoned it just as quickly is highly selective memory. 4 years and 3 months isn't a long console life by any stretch, but there have been worse. The Dreamcast released in NA on September 9, 1999 and was discontinued on March 31, 2001. That's less than 2 years (still less than 3 years even if you had the 1998 Japan release). Sony may not have officially discontinued the PlayStation Vita until 2019, but what efforts did they make to support the system beyond mid-2014 (two years into the systems life)? |
It's curious how the games you listed released all between 2015 and 2016 (with the exception of BOTW). Games don't take two or three years to make. Most of them must had been greenlit early into the WiiU's cycle o even before it. The only 2017 title in there, was most likely pushed back to be launched along the Switch.
Remember the game drought? I still think that "dropping it like a red hot ball of iron" is an accurate description.
Bolded: I'm not sure what this has got to do with anything, but yeah, Sony dropped the Vita as if it was a leper.
