Wii and DS worked for their time, their successors were not as successful. For 2005-2010 give or take, Nintendo rode a very wave that was a sign of the times. I think the iPhone and iPad and Android devices unfortunately kind of made that blue ocean very red and so did Kinect and Move. Either way, that's now 20+ years in the past and not really applicable to the current market or even current Nintendo.
The Switch 2 is not much like the Wii or DS at all, it's a premium product with really high end graphics capability for a mobile device, it holds its own and even in some cases surpasses like $600+ PC handhelds and can run modern versions of modern games. You couldn't run the PS3 version of like Madden NFL or Call of Duty natively on the Wii or DS, no way, the Switch 2 can do that for PS5 games.
The Wii had to have its own versions of things like Call of Duty and Ghostbusters made for it.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 06 January 2026
