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RedKingXIII on 27 February 2024
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curl-6 said:
burninmylight said:

Also, let's not forget the Wii U was still on that played out as hell PowerPC architecture from the GameCube days. In this scenario, does it still have a PPC processor, or a more modern one?

If it's the latter, then does that mean no Wii backwards compatibility, or how would that be handled?

RedKingXIII said:

Would the software droughts and the 3DS still exist in this scenario? Because if so I don't think the Wii U would've done a lot better.

Good questions: in this scenario let's assume 3DS still exists, and the Wii U uses modern architecture with no backwards compatibility, as I don't think it would be viable to push the old PowerPC 750 cores up to that level.

The first party droughts remain.

It wouldn't done much better then.

The first few months of the Wii U were dreadful. The thing launched in nov/2012 and the first 'major' Nintendo game after launch being Pikmin in aug/2013, with its first real system seller being Super Mario 3D World, launching in nov/2013, more than a year after the launch. At the time 3DW was so disappointing that arguably you could say the first real system seller of the Wii U was Mario Kart 8, which launched in may 2014.

If this is still the case in this scenario, I'm not sure if better third party support would be enough for people to get a new Nintendo system; at the end of 2012 the casuals who bought the Wii had moved on and the hardcore gamers already had a PC/PS3/X360 to play the new third party releases that would come to the Wii U, so I don't see why anyone would buy a new system to play the same games they could already play.

The 3DS still existing with a very similar (albeit with sacrificed visuals/gameplay) library of first party games compared to the Wii U while being cheaper also doesn't help things.