| JWeinCom said: Pretty mild take. 3DS had a lot of advantages. It was relatively cheap after the initial price drop. It really had no direct competition in the portable market which was especially important in Japan. As a result it got pretty meaningful third party support, unlike the Wii U. And it was cheaper and easier to develop games for so it wasn't plagued with delays like the Wii U was. Also, I think the 3DS kind of in a way killed the Wii U. When the 3DS was struggling, Nintendo made some pretty aggressive course correction. In terms of price, and I imagine internally they may have shifted more resources. On the contrary, Wii U just kind of was left to die. Maybe they just realized they didn't have a winner on their hands, but I think it's also possible they realized that they could only save one and the market was much more favorable to the 3DS.
You couldn't play it on a TV but you couldn't play a Wii U more than 30 feet or so from your console. So, just a mater of preference there. |
I like playing games on a bigger screen with full stereo speakers. It gives me more immersion. So being a handheld is not an advantage to me. And like you said, the best games on Wii-U are better than the best games on the 3DS, so that's why I choose the former. The latter can have more games, but I'm a quality over quantity type of guy. You give me BOTW, Splatoon, and HD versions of Nintendo franchises over their technologically-inferior 3DS versions any day of the week.
