I don’t know which I love more: that there are still people maintaining support for the Nintendo motherfucking Wii News Channel, or that there are still people checking it.
You know what I hate though? That Nintendo had one of the best ideas for a console ever and then said, “fuck it, we’re never doing that again.” I don’t even get it. It was super popular.
Thing is they did do that again, they just didn’t show the Wii U the same love they had for the Wii
I’m not entirely sure what this means tbh
The Wii U wasn’t even remotely as financially successful as its predecessor, the Wii, so Nintendo didn’t put in as much effort. The Wii was a big hit with the casual market as well as Nintendo’s usual customers. Unfortunately, the Wii U failed to live up to expectation for a variety of reasons. One example is that much of the casual market didn’t see the need to upgrade (I suspect a lot of them, being new to gaming, didn’t really understand that the Wii U was a new console).
I worked in a GameStop when the Wii and then WiiU dropped. The Wii had one fucking massive ad campaign. Info packets, demo units, etc. We had it all.
The WiiU initially showed up as a SKU under the Wii as an accessory, and then for the longest time, we couldn’t get a straight answer as to whether it was its own thing or if it was like a SegaCD or 32x, or if it was just a new controller or what. When we got answers, it was already well into the preorder timeline and numbers were terrible, at least at my store.
This kind of feels like a chicken/egg problem. Maybe if they put the work in it would have done better?
I mean I understand the history of the Wii-U better than you probably think, but I just find the phrasing of your statement very interesting. Because it basically says “if it wasn’t such a failure, Nintendo would have done more for it.” It kind of implies a Nintendo isn’t responsible for how it flopped and is instead a victim of it even though they’re ones who made and sold it. Like their hands were tied.
It’s very odd to me and I’m just trying to parse your real meaning, because the above sounds very silly to me.
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So much garbage released on Wii. Really harkened back Nintendo’s roots lol. I love the Wii and it has a lot of great releases but it really felt like 30% of the catalog was shovelware.
What idea, exactly? Because the pointer feature was fun, but not what I’d prefer to use often. The Switch has the same motion control, plus it’s portable.
You mean the SNES, right?
To me the most surprising thing is the dev of RiiConnect24 was 13 when he started coding the service and wasn’t even a teenager when the original service was shutdown.
On one hand I am enjoying his thugshot being plastered everywhere; on the other, I have to see his face more. Oh well. I’ll just think of the 91 criminal charges across 4 independent grand jury indictments to soothe me.
How many times have you seen hitler, Stalin, Putin, Mao, etc etc
Know thy enemy, don’t let history repeat itself
I just wanted this asshole to have a heart attack on the toilet at his weird ass golf club so I’d never have to see his face again.
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Finally, reported by a reliable news source.
