curl-6 on 28 November 2022
Yeah I think a lot of it came down to a general feeling of malaise and decline; we'd just come off a generation of watching the Wii U limp to a miserable 13 million lifetime, and even the 3DS failing to reach the sales of previous handhelds.
At the time, it just felt like Nintendo had really lost touch with the gaming audience and couldn't get anything right.
