| JackHandy said: The only thing I'm curious about is which Nintendo is going to emerge. The post-NES Nintendo where they simply take what works and add to it? Or the post-Gamecube Nintendo which attempted to redefine what Nintendo consoles were all about? Because at first glance, you'd think the former, since the Switch was NES-level successful. But then the Wii-U comes to mind (the Wii won its gen), and it all goes out of the window, and you're left with more questions than answers. |
The Wii was already practically dead when the Wii U launched and the Wii U's marketing was so horrible that many people didn't even realize it was a new console and not an add on and others (like me) never even knew of it's existence for at least the first few years of it's life. It also suffered from not getting enough first party games, having many long droughts and many of the games it got were subpar. Third party games were barely there at all.
The Wii's userbase consisted in large part from very casual players who moved on rather quickly or only cared about Wii Fit or other Wii brand games.
The Switch has a much more active userbase that buys a much larger variety of games and much more games in general. If the succsssor to the Switch doesn't launch to late, gets marketed properly and gets (just like the Switch) all of Nintendo's output and has a very solid first year and not to many droughts (everything unlike the Wii U) it will be more likely a huge success than not.
The Wii and Switch in that regard are in very different positions at this point in their lives. The Wii brand had fallen off in popularity and mindshare while the Switch brand is still very present and popular.
