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How does the WiiU abandonment make you feel about buying the Switch?

I own a WiiU and will def... 253 38.22%
 
I own a WiiU and I will w... 147 22.21%
 
I own a WiiU and I won't buy a Switch. 97 14.65%
 
I don't own a WiiU and w... 26 3.93%
 
I don't own a WiiU and I... 56 8.46%
 
I don't own a WiiU and I... 83 12.54%
 
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Insidb on 19 January 2017
RolStoppable said:
The abandonment of the Wii U makes me feel better about buying a Switch.

Interesting and reasonable point: where else can one get their 1st party titles, if they're no longer coming to WiiU?



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KLXVER on 19 January 2017
Insidb said:
RolStoppable said:
The abandonment of the Wii U makes me feel better about buying a Switch.

Interesting and reasonable point: where else can one get their 1st party titles, if they're no longer coming to WiiU?

The 3DS apparently...



AnthonyW86 on 19 January 2017

Well look at it this way, the original Xbox hade a shorter lifespan than the Wii-U and the Xbox 360 is the best console Microsoft has ever made. So it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.

Nintendo just made some poor choices, Wii-U should have been a Wii HD and Switch is what the Wii-U should have been. The Wii-U came to late to be a Wii HD and was to early for it to be a proper portable device.



Pachofilauri on 19 January 2017

I don't feel abandoned i bought it at launch and had a great time with, people upgrade phones more frequently (1-2 years) and phones are more expensive.

Why should i feel bad for paying 299USD every 4-5 years but not for paying 699USD every couple of years?



Pavolink on 19 January 2017
Mike321 said:
I'm just glad they kept their promise of releasing zelda for the wii u.

This.



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Hedra42 on 19 January 2017

I don't have a problem with the Switch coming. I bought the Wii U a year after launch even though it was clear that it wasn't going to be as successful as people had hoped. But it's still being played. I have no plans to get a Switch at the moment, but if I do, it will most likely be a long time after launch.



specialk on 19 January 2017
kitler53 said:
i was kind of salty once nintendo starve the late years of the gamecube to hold games over to the wii. then i was kind happy in the early years of the wii. then i became horribly salty when nintendo had a mega sucessful console and still managed to abandon it after only a couple years of support.

a promise from nintendo is about as good as one from donald trump.

Hmm. I never got the impression that the Nintendo abandoned the Wii early. 



Random_Matt on 19 January 2017

Isn't four years enough?



Killy_Vorkosigan on 19 January 2017
kitler53 said:
i was kind of salty once nintendo starve the late years of the gamecube to hold games over to the wii. then i was kind happy in the early years of the wii. then i became horribly salty when nintendo had a mega sucessful console and still managed to abandon it after only a couple years of support.

a promise from nintendo is about as good as one from donald trump.

This is exactly what I think. I won't buy any ninty related product soon.



bdbdbd on 19 January 2017
Insidb said:

I bought my WiiU after my PS4 and before my X1, figuring that the PS4/WiiU combo would cover nearly all my bases. Suffice to say, when Nintendo decided to slowly euthanize the WiiU, I was quite displeased. As an owner of every Nintendo system (fine...not the VirtualBoy), I have no recollection of them ever abandoning a console so abruptly and completely. It was rather diaconcerting to me that the NX was announced so early into the WiiU cycle, and the Switch reveal was like a punch to the mouth.

Nintendo presented...wait for it...the WiiU...with games...awesome. Putting the home- and handheld- console argument aside, it begged the simple question, "Why the hell didn'y you just do this for the WiiU!?" Traditionally, I knew that I would eventually own the latest Nintendo console, but this latest affront has given me pause. Odds are that I will eventually buy a Switch, but is are there any other WiiU owners or observers of this oddity who are likewise concerned?

Nintendo abandoned Gamecube just as quickly they abandoned Wii U.

I have a Wii U, and if this means Nintendo will be back on track making good games, I say good riddance.

Soundwave said:

What's the incentive of Wii owners to upgrade to a "Wii HD"? The whole point of Wii was graphics don't matter.

That audience was never upgrading just to play Wii Sports and Just Dance in HD when those games ran fine on the regular Wii. And Wii sales were sinking like the Titanic before Wii U ever even showed up. 

No, the point wasn't graphics didn't matter. Just that the games do. Other than better graphics, having a HDMI output would reduce the lag of your TV, that could be a real game killer. I had my SD widescreen as long as possible because of playing on Wii.



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