5 Reasons Why The Wii U Failed #Helpful Post

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this is Austin the WiiU was the biggest

flop in Nintendo history they're sure

they had weird experiments like the

Virtual Boy but coming off of the

massively successful we there's a real

sense that Nintendo could do no wrong

and yet we have this reason number one

is a simple one the name was just not a

good idea

now don't get me wrong we was not a bad

console but a lot of people first of all

didn't realize there was even a separate

console by itself lots lots of people

just thought that it was a tablet add-on

for the original Wii and I mean with ads

like this can you blame them and did we

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simulation don't get me wrong a ton of

people made fun of the name of the

original Wii at least until it wasn't

basically every living room on the face

of the planet the problem is that six

years after the launch of the original

Wii Nintendo brought this out and a lot

of people just asked what exactly wasn't

it is a big problem when tons of people

don't realize that your shiny brand-new

console is an actual shiny new console

and that's some add-on for the original

Wii especially when you consider that

after a hundred million sales of the

original Wii and merely 13 million with

the Wii U Nintendo had a major branding

problem they honestly could have been

solved by just calling this the Wii 2 or

you know the Wii

he wants you to buy our console edition

reason number two why the Wii U was

sales challenged had to do with the

tablet that served as its controller the

gamepad it's easy to forget the back of

2012 tablets were touted as the next big

thing

unfortunately what was not the next big

thing was a giant unwieldy tablet that

was completely useless if it was not

connected to its base station that's the

beauty of a console like the switch it

has pretty much none of the same

downsides as the Wii U so you're going

to be getting a more powerful system

that's going to be a lot smaller a lot

more portable and to top it all off you

can take it with you anywhere as opposed

to the Wii U where you can take this

anywhere as long as this is no more than

20 to 25 feet away with the Wii U the

gamepad relied on a local wireless

connection and well that was fine for

the most part get you far away and it

completely falls apart however once

you're actually close to the Wii U

console it does work pretty well in

theory you could never plug this into a

TV and just use the gamepad for all of

your gameplay it launched the gamepad

also had another problem not very good

battery life so the first models would

last somewhere in the neighborhood of

three to three-and-a-half hours on a

charge which really isn't great for a

controller thankfully later models did

bump that up to something closer to 6 to

7 but if you're one of those early

adopters of the Wii U you would better

not stay too far from a charger with

this guy now this might sound like a

little bit of a nitpick but one of the

issues especially with games like Super

Smash Brothers is that while this is

always going to be one of your

controllers you can only ever have one

gamepad pair with the Wii U at the same

time meaning that if everyone comes over

for a game of Smash Brothers someone's

always gonna get stuck with the giant

controller however don't get me wrong

this is not all fatted by any means so

first of all the idea this has a lot of

interesting tech that was legitimately

new for the time is cool stuff like NFC

support for amiibos which would come a

little bit later really was the first

time this has ever shown in a Nintendo

console and the idea that you do have a

camera you do have decent controls even

though it's a little bit big touchscreen

there's a lot to like here but this was

a major hurdle for the Wii U to overcome

a lot of people just straight-up thought

that it was an accessory for the

original Wii kinda hard to get over that

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reason number three has to do with power

it's easy to forget but the Wii U

actually came out only a year before the

Xbox one and the ps4 whether we was

essentially just a faster GameCube the

way you did some legitimately

interesting stuff of course one of the

biggest bleeps was the leap ship HD

something that the Xbox 360 bh2 by like

seven years however there was more to it

than just that as opposed to the anemic

single core CPU that was found in both

the Gamecube and the Wii instead that we

use depth all the way up to a triple

core PowerPC processor although this was

hardly cutting-edge even back in 2012

Nintendo also included a dual AMD GPU

setup well technically at least so in

addition to the standard GPU which is

what the Wii U uses to run its normal

games you're also going to be getting a

copy of the Wii GPU now this is for

backwards compatibility and it does work

really well here although interestingly

you actually can't unlock GameCube

backwards compatibility as well although

that is definitely not going to be fully

supported at least if you ask Nintendo

two gigs of RAM the way you does have a

healthy advantage over both the Xbox 360

as well as the ps3 and in a lot of ways

the Wii U is going to be more powerful

unfortunately the way you came out in

2012 and again being only a year away

from both the Xbox one and ps4 this

really had a difficult time competing

with the current generation of consoles

just like the Wii it had a lot of

interesting capabilities but high

performance definitely wasn't one of

them

reason number four has to do with price

so the way you first came out there were

two models

first of all a basic white version which

looks very very similar to the original

Wii and then there's the black deluxe

edition which is a little bit more

expensive at least didn't look quite so

much like the consoles that it was

replacing considering that you were

getting a console with roughly the same

power as the outgoing Xbox 360 and ps3

prices weren't exactly cheap so the

basic model came with only a gigabytes

of storage for $300 and even stepping up

to the deluxe model was still and gets

you 32 gigs of storage at a $350 price

tag maybe be fair it wasn't all bad from

the start the first couple of months of

the Wii being on sale

Nintendo sold over three million units

unfortunately after that

well sales kind of fell off of a cliff

and they really never recovered due to

the high cost of the gamepad which had

to be included with every single Wii U

Nintendo really didn't have a lot of

options to be able to boost the liking

sales so after about a year they were

able to drop the price on the deluxe

model from $350 to 300 the day but it

really was not a lot of room for them to

do anything besides hope the people

would finally buy this

misunderstood wonderful console now that

was the only problem with the Wii U they

probably would have been just fine

however with problems quickly mounting

the Wii U having only been on sale for

less than a year the real challenges

were coming up very quickly ps4 Xbox one

as you might imagine very quickly

outsold the Wii U and never looked back

and that brings us to reason number five

why the Wii U was a failure third-party

support or more specifically the almost

complete lack thereof no let's be real

the original we did have a lot of

third-party games the problem was most

of them were a complete garbage

however with a hundred million consoles

in the wild a lot of developers in fact

pretty much all developers really didn't

have a lot of choice you had to make a

weak game and when it comes to Wii U

they didn't really have that constraint

which means they really didn't have to

actually make Wii U games and so it to

be fair there were some third-party

games on the Wii U most specifically

Ubisoft actions did support it for the

first few years however the issue was is

that with so few consoles in the wild

and such a huge disparity between the

performance of the Wii U and the

brand-new Xbox one and ps4 it was very

difficult for developers to justify

spending the time and money to bringing

on actually decent Wii U game to the

platform maybe these more complicated

was the promise of the gamepad and of

course most first parties didn't take

great advantage of this so it comes to

third-party support yeah that really

wasn't a thing didn't really put things

in context the final tally here in the

US for third-party games released under

Wii U was a mere 118 titles that is far

less than any other main Nintendo

console by a lot don't get me wrong

there were some amazing Nintendo titles

for the Wii U but at this point almost

all of them have been ported to the

switch and are oftentimes even better

than their original versions and the

ones that haven't been ported are pretty

much already on the way it was a cool

console there's a lot they did right but

the games either weren't there or just

better on switch today anyway it's kind

of ironic to think that the switch

really is just a Wii U 2.0 with the tech

that actually supports the original

vision sometimes it just goes to show

success and failure it can be two

different sides of the same coin that's

how it's done