Chris Dring - Nintendo Switch 2 has now outsold Wii U, Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation Vita in the UK (NielsenIQ data)

[BraLoD]

Otter said:

BraLoD said:

As I replyed to someone else, I think the Vita had great hardware but really lacked exclusives, and the Wii U had great exclusives but was not attractive as a purchase.

Yeah by the time it got its "system sellers" like Smash Bros Ultimate & Mario Kart 8, it was already deemed a flop. It lacked single player oriented games like mainline Zelda & mainline Mario, the fact it was directly competing with PS4/X1 (launched 1 year later) didn't help 

Yeah, Nintendo was still trying to compete as a home console and so people expected it to have third party support for the big games, but when the other consoles released one year later it was clear it was too weak and people went for the others, specially the PS4 that had the better of both worlds (exclusives + third parties).