Why do you think Nintendo has survived so long as a platform holder?

[TheRealSamusAran]

curl-6 said:

TheRealSamusAran said:

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.

The first party offering was top notch, there's a reason why almost all the Wii U exclusives ended up on the Switch after all, but yeah the 3rd party library was one of the worst.