What went wrong with this? It was a pretty good console all things

>>381563237
Shit controller.

No advertising. I wonder if Nintendo ever commented on why this happened. Did they have a shit advertising guy?

wii sold because the wii remote seemed novel at the time; if it had shipped with the classic controller instead it would have been painfully obvious how shit it was against the competition.
the same applies to the wii u, just like is predecessor it was carried by its controller - which was strictly 1 per console.

the wii was for families, the wii u was for individuals

>>381563237
>It was a pretty good console all things considered
This is where you're wrong. It's bad in literally everything.

>>381563237
Garbage games
No zelda

>>381564368
Don't think they ever made a public statement about it but if you look it up almost their entire marketing deparment hired around 2011 got fired by 2016.

>>381563237
>good console
>3 expresso cpu cores
There is a reason it had no 3rd party support, anon. The Wii U's CPU was weaker then the Xbox 360 and PS3's CPUs

>>381565369
It has good games, that's all that should matter.

>>381563237

Learning how to design games on a Wii-U was time-consuming and costly.

>>381563237
Shit marketing. Shit advertising and later down the line even Nintendo's titles weren't that good.

>>381563237
Nintendo are so out of touch with today's market. They just need to have a home console, that can give developers chance to bring multiplats to it, along with exclusives from companies except themselves.

NES/SNES weren't popular purely because of first-party titles, it was due to the rest of the amazing games.

>>381563237
Iwata.

>forced gimmick
>every game must be for everyone
>high price tag
>weak brand

Should I get one for cheap and mod it? I wanna load it with VC and GC games. It was either that or getting a raspberry PI. Although N64 emulation on it fucking sucks

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>>381563237
>What went wrong with this?
Your shit taste.

/thread.

>>381570801
I see 7 games on that list that I would play.

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>>381563237
they tried to make the gamepad the big gimmick when every normie already had a tablet at home.

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The new video game audience only cares about graphics, not games. And the average IQ of consolefags doesn't allow them to build a PC.

>>381570801
I like the Wii U but putting Color Trash and Star Fox Zero on there just makes you look silly.

>>381563237
>It was a pretty good console all things considered

What are you talking about? All things considered, it comes out as a bad console. You can't just say "all things considered" as if people won't actually consider all things themselves.

>>381563237
Advertising. I'm happy with what I got though, had enough new games for me to enjoy that were pretty good.

>>381571694
Because learning to build a pc is an achievement