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IcaroRibeiro on 13 February 2021
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Shiken said:
Pyro as Bill said:

Is the conventional thinking that out of 100m Wii owners, only 15% went to WiiU and the rest disengaged?

Did none of the rest move to Sony/MS? If they did then that would mean the 8th gen saw a decline in the traditional support for the 'twins' wouldn't it?

There is actually a high numver of people that did not even know the WiiU was Nintendo's next console.  I know someone who was given one for xmas, and it sat in his closet because he though it was just an add on for his Wii.

I mentioned the Switch to him just after it came out, and he said, "Man Nintendo has not released anything since the Wii.  Its about time!"

When I told him what the WiiU was, he was shocked to realize he had Nintendo's next consile all along and never knew.  So I would not be suprised if a number of casual gamers were just waiting on Nintendo's next console lol.

Of course I don't believe that only 15% of Wii owners moved to another console, but it makes for a fun story.

I only discovered about Wii U when I read the first news about of NX (placeholder name for what was going to be the Switch), I guess it was 2015

So yeah, many people like me wasn't aware of Wii U existence

I didn't owned a Wii though. I actually hated the system everytime I tried it (uncle had one). Switch was the successor of my 3DS