TheRealSamusAran said:
curl-6 said:
That is exactly what happened though; Mario Kart 8 was a great game trapped on a console nobody wanted. It was like selling a delicious meal in a restaurant that's filthy and crawling with cockroaches in a shitty part of town, it doesn't mean people don't like the meal, they're just put off by the surrounding factors. The alternative theory is that over 50 million people all magically changed their minds about Nintendo games overnight for no reason; this simply doesn't hold up to a moment of logical scrutiny. If it was the audience's attitude that changed, then the change would have happened gradually over time. Instead it changed instantly, and the the fact this sudden change happened exactly when a desirable new Nintendo console came out shows that it was the Switch that caused the change. |
You're all forgetting that the problem with the Wii U wasn't the games or the system, it was the marketing. If we asked the common folk what the Wii U was even as late as in 2017, they would have said it was a controller for the Wii, because the marketing was that bad. Really a shame, because the console was fantastic. |
I would argue the console itself had a ton of problems beyond the marketing; brutal game droughts, an unappealing central gimmick, lack of third party support, etc. The marketing was definitely terrible, but it wasn't the system's only issue.
I owned a Wii U myself and it was pretty miserable a lot of the time with only like 4-5 worthwhile games coming out per year with months of nothing in between.
