WiiU's failure was due to MULTIPLE issues.

1) Naming.
2) Price.
3) Gimmick.
4) Game release cadence. (Prolonged droughts).
5) Advertising.

And more.

Quality of the games themselves were not the issue as Mario Kart 8 is one of the -best- selling titles of all time and Breath of the Wild, one of the highest rated.

I bought a WiiU when the console was being depreciated as it was the cheapest way to buy and play Breath of the Wild, I knew what it was.. As I was heavily debating with a few forum users who kept arguing it was more powerful than the Xbox One or Playstation 4 rather frequently, but I would be an exception as I like to understand hardware at a low level.

The game library is extremely tiny, but it's definitely a quality one, one that benefited the Switch greatly as the ports of Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart, New Super Mario Bros Deluxe, Tropical Freezer, Captain Toad were all rated highly.

Going forth however, I don't think consumers would accept a "reset" of their game library when upgrading consoles, gamers expect their digital and physical purchases to carry forwards, so it will be interesting to see how Nintendo manages all that as their online systems tend to be an extremely weak point.

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Capcom got Nintendo to extend Switch's Ram. Capcom now expanded the name for the Switch successor. This is the leaked official name.

I agree with you, OP.

Super Switch sounds good and we're about to hit the 90's nostalgia era so bringing to mind the SNES should be a good business move.

In regards to the WiiU, there was some confusion, not among core gamers but with the general public. I remember my Aunt thinking that the WiiU was just the gamepad and that it was a new accessory to the Wii, since 95% of the advertising was focused on the gamepad itself. It would have failed regardless given how the casual audience had moved on and many core gamers were turned off of Nintendo by the Wii's waggle tech, but the confusion certainly didn't help.

Do you all keep track with everything model and version of smartphones released every year? Because I certainly don't

 It's not like a person could not figure out what a Wii U with research but rather they didn't do any research at all because they didn't care

The advertising failed to communicate "there is a new console, check it out"

The virtual box example is particularly interesting because I didn't even knew it was ever released until a couple of years ago studying about console History. Remember not everyone is a 30 years old adult doing research. A big part of the industry are kids who only wants what is either advertised them on TV or what they see what their friends also have/share. 

Hardware buying is often about FOMO. If your marketing is bad you don't need to fear missing it out. The momento you don't communicate your system is good you are basically saying to your customers they don't need it 

If this was not a important then Hardware makers should have stopped spending billions of money in marketing every generation but here we are 

lol yes good idea... 

On serious note I prefer Switch 2 like almost everyone.

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Then again, what if it dropped the Switch name altogether and came up with a new one? Or at least one that harkens back to earlier hardware? Like call it the NUS as in Nintendo Ultra System, a nod to both the NES and the Nintendo 64's codename/Japanese name.

Don't need to.

You can have a Samsung Galaxy 5 or iPhone 5 and not use anything for 10 years... And then check the market to find Galaxy S25 and iPhone 15.

And it's not hard to surmise that 25/15 is greater than 5.

But going from a Wii As in "together" to WiiU and a big picture of a single Tablet on the box... That sends a very different mixed message.