Super Switch

[Jumpin]

Norion said:

Jumpin said:

I am 100% in agreement with you. The whole notion that human beings can’t understand what new generations of hardware are unless it’s numbered feels like an insult to human intelligence. The cope/excuse is absurd to the point of nonsense. We’re Homo sapiens, not capuchin monkeys… most of us :)

The Wii U was also one of the most heavily marketed consoles at launch, with kiosks all over the place. People knew what it was, and if they didn’t, why weren’t there mass sales of Wii U games for the Wii? Why were the old Wii games still outselling all the much more heavily marketed Wii U games? And when people did buy Wii U games, they were for the Wii U console. The answer is simple, we’re not capuchin monkeys!

It's well known that the Wii U confused a lot of people. Many were confused after its reveal at E3 2011 and those were proper gamers. If I remember right someone on this forum gifted someone a Wii U but it sat unused in a closet cause he thought it was just a Wii accessory and was wondering why Nintendo waited so long to release a new home console ki after the Wii so thought they followed the Wii up with the Switch. It wouldn't have saved the Wii U but I bet that if it was called something like the Wii 2 it would've done at least as well as the Gamecube.

E3 2011 was about a year and a half before the Wii U launch and isn’t relevant. The people who were wondering what it was found out soon after.

I wouldn’t be so credulous to believe that anecdote that sounds so absurd when applying even the most basic reasoning; for example, you can ask these questions: Why would someone buy a gaming console for a friend that not only doesn’t want it, but has never heard of it? How could the person see that box, feel its weight, and not know what it was? Who gets an expensive gift and considers it an accessory to put in the closet? 

The point is, the mass confusion you’re claiming didn’t happen—at least not any time close to the console’s launch, let alone for the entire generation. Again, we’re human beings, not capuchin monkeys… but as has been pointed out, there are flat earthers :D