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KLXVER on 05 September 2023
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zorg1000 said:
KLXVER said:

At the end of the day its just opinions. I cant prove what I say is true and you cant prove what you say is true. We can only believe what we think might be true.

Ill give you the WII U argument though. I admit that is a flawed argument from my part.

Sure it’s opinions but we have the power of hindsight where we can look back and analyze various things that happened during previous generations to create informed opinions. Taking a single trend and ignoring the other variables isn’t a good way to come to a conclusion.

For 3DS & Wii U, I agree that their names were a factor as they did not do enough to indicate that they were brand new consoles, the average person could easily mistake 3DS for a DS revision with a 3D screen or think Wii U was a tablet accessory for Wii but there were clearly other very large issues on top of that so they would have had large declines regardless of name.

As for Super Nintendo & Gameboy Advance, I would really like to hear how those were poor names that contributed to their declines from NES/GB or why GameCube did so poorly despite having a completely unique name from previous consoles.

Well do you think the GC would have done better if it was called N64 2 or the Super N64?

Also I dont ignore other factors. All Im saying is the naming of a console seems to be A factor in why these systems do less than their predecessors. I believe if the Wii U was called the Nintendo Fusion for example(sorry I suck at naming consoles) I think it would have sold more. It wouldnt have the negative association that comes with the name Wii. From confusing or feeling unnecessary to casuals and making core gamers think of casual games and shovelware. Now I dont think it would have made the system a success, but I think more people would have given it a chance.