Xbox One; was it a successful console?

[VAMatt]

Kakadu18 said:

VAMatt said:

In some sense, yes.  But, it is not clear to me that Sony and Nintendo learned as much from those flops as MS learned from XBone.  The XBone's struggles pushed MS to completely refocus their gaming business.  Sony just stopped doing handhelds, and I don't see that Nintendo really changed anything about how they operate at all.  

Nintendo's marketing was shit back then, now it isn't. The Wii U had alot of droughts because they also had to make games for the 3DS. The Switch is the product of them learning from the Wii U.

Well, I suppose you're right that Ninty did a much better job of explaining what the Switch is than they did with the Wii U.  

I think the more steady flow of games thing is more just an automatic thing than an overt change at Nintendo.  They were able to retread much of the Wii U stuff, cuz few people played it.  And, going from two systems to one automatically puts all of their studios working on games for one system.  I never heard any credible rumors about Nintendo developing a new dedicated handheld and dedicated console, so I don't have any reason to believe they unified because of the Wii U.  I think they unified them because the market for dedicated handhelds was clearly shrinking.