Slownenberg said:
Exactly. The idea that people were too stupid to figure out Wii U was a new system is just a (somewhat) popular myth used to try to explain why it did SOOOO badly. Some people just don't like to try to figure out the (obvious) actual reasons it did so poorly so they just say it was the name haha. It'd be like arguing the GC did so poorly because people couldn't tell if it was a toy cube or a video game system lol. Or saying the Virtual Boy was a failure because people thought it was a digital boy and not a video game system I mean hell, anecdotally, I've owned every Nintendo console except the Wii U and the few times I've owned non-Nintendo systems while they were current (DC, PS2, Xbox, X360) they were very much secondary to my Nintendo system, and I never even thought about getting a Wii U. It was just a plain bad product from a hardware design perspective. The thing it was a solution to (keep playing a game when someone else demands to use the TV) was not nearly a big enough problem for people compared to how awkward the Wii U concept was.. The product idea was so bad that it failed to interest even very Nintendo-specific gamers, like me. Wii U only interested a fraction of the core Nintendo gamer, which means it pretty much didn't pick up anyone else. The odd flat-earther intelligence-level person who couldn't comprehend that Wii U was the successor to the Wii and refused to ever look up any information about it so as to learn what it was has absolutely nothing to do with why 85+ million people who bought a Wii didn't buy a Wii U. If you wanted to know what the Wii U was at anytime all you had to do was type "Wii U" into google and click on a product link, or just watch videos/media from Nintendo announcing the thing or talking about it later, or just look at any news media about the Wii U, or pay any attention to the gaming industry at all. Also the idea that people didn't know it was a new system after the Wii U E3 reveal...I just looked up that video and literally 30 seconds before announcing the name "Wii U" Reggie says its a new Nintendo system lol. And if somehow people weren't bright enough to figure it out at that point it's not like Nintendo kept the Wii U a secret after that and refused to ever talk about it again haha. No matter what the Wii U was named it would have had the same sales, give or take a few hundred. |
Why are you acting as if people are saying it's the sole reason it failed when no one has? I literally said right there the Wii U wouldn't have been saved if it had a better name, just that it wouldn't have done quite as badly. It can be a bad product from a hardware design perspective and the marketing for it can be terrible, it's not an either or thing. You have someone in this very thread saying the first time they ever saw a Wii U they found it confusing so ignored it so imagine how people less in tune with video games would've reacted to it.
Also for the bolded part that ignores that a lot of people who buy video game consoles won't do any of those things.
