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Nintendo Wii > Nintendo WiiU

Yeah, sorry but this is Nintendo they are creative with naming their consoles! And games ofcourse... Mario 64, Mario Kart64, Starfox64,Pilotwings64..

Wii HD would have been a much better name IMO, but considering how HD is just....expected these days that's probably why they opted for Wii U. This console should have released at least 1 year earlier, no matter the name. I don't think the "Wii" name is holding it back, I think the Wii name is what is selling it right now.

i think that the reason that the wiiu isnt really selling as good as the wii is because most of its core gamers are casual gamers and already have a wii that they most likely dont really ever play anymore and just collects dust under there bed or just next to their tv or they just use it for watching netflex i mean the reason wii sold so well is because they were everywere on tv at old folks homes and it was fun new and had something nobody ever had b4 with motion gaming and now the wiiu with its new controller is going head to head with all the ipads and other pad like gaming consoles already out but now the next ps4 and xbox are taking what wii made to the next level but i still think the wiiu well sell like 40 to 50 million in 7 years but i think the next ps and box well both sell around 90 million units in 8 years

if there were games and it sold bad then I would agree that the name is holding it back but the only reason right now is the absence of system sellers from Nintendo

A late port, a port of a Wii game with extra content & a Lego game.  Watch the Wii U fly off the shelves!

I answered his question. There was nothing in january or february, monster hunter is a game you play for usually 200 hours +, the lego game looks pretty cool (surprising) and need for speed is on par with the pc version. I don't think that it will sell systems, but these are games I want. 

Hmm, I actually like the Wii U name for the console. I don't think it's holding the console back. The Wii U needs games, not quantity but quality games, and also it needs marketing and way more of it! I don't ever see any commercials for it and some of my co-workers thought it was just a new controller for the Wii. They definitely need to educate people to the fact that the Wii U is a hole new gaming system and marketing can do that in my opinion.

I agree it was a mistake, but not the biggest mistake.
They should have not included Wii in the name.

I don't think so. Maybe the Wii Experience is holding the Wii back. I mean, although the Wii sold very well, you could see in the last 2 years that software had a hard time selling apart from a few key games. Look at the top 100 Wii games and see how few games are in there from 2011 and 2012. And then compare it with the PS3 or the X360.

After all, despite the buzz of motion controls, they simply failed to deliver significantly. I mean, there are only few people who kept their interest. Nintendo attracted many non-gamer, but most of them will never come back a second time after they lost their interest the first time. That is the problem with trends. Look how far guitar games or Kawashimas Brain Age, SingStar etc have come.

I personally think the main problem with the new Wii is the controller. The games will come eventually, but the controller will stay.They should have made it optional...

What is the actual benefit of the second screen? You can't look at the TV and your controller at the same time. There are only a few situation where I think that this feature would have been useful. Asynchronous gameplay... no use at all if you are playing singleplayer games. Again, only useful in certain game situation.

Once again Nintendo is alienating many "core gamer" with a very special controller that was made the standard control scheme. I often wonder how many people were buying the Wii and the DS not "because of" but "despite" the new innovations. I think that many people just wanted to play the new Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc.

I dont know about the biggest mistake but it was a mistake, i personally know several people who thought it was just a redesign, like the xbox slim, ps3 slim that added a controller because the wii had several, and not a totally new system. The only thing that make sense to me is that nintendo was trying to piggyback on their wii userbase, they wanted to emphasize on how you could bring you whole wii experience, games, controllers, etc to their new system.