This sponsor spot was pretty cringe.

Nintendo continues to disappoint me in just about every way imaginable lol... They do things that are incredibly immoral, like restricting and shutting down access to games and services and trickling them out behind a pathetic emulated paywall. Some games they release are amazing, but not near enough, it's too long between these games' releases. Sueing everyone over every tiny little thing they don't like. It's sad and disgusting to see them act this way and still claim they are on the gamers' side....... I have really hateful things to say about them, but I can't because UKposts will outright ban me for expressing my true feelings about that POS company lol...

@@BAGGStheAugmented toca pasto.

I implore you guys to no advertise for a shitty game when doing an entire game series FOR YEARS about shitty games. It waters down every single position you have and justifies every shit game choice as a monetary decision like taking on a mobile predatory game sponsor versus making a good game, and then you see the abandonment when that exact audience isn't providing ancillary income from game shop purchases. Please try to utilize non video game sponsors , why takes anyone's 20 year old opinion on any game seriously when they advertise for a terrible mobile game.

This is a very good mini-doc, however as a developer who worked on a 3rd party Wii U launch title, I can tell you that there's some meat left on the bone here. Perhaps a part 2 or addendum video if the author is interested. While poor marketing did impact the Wii U negatively to an enormous extent, I can confidently say that less obvious elements had a cumulative negative impact that was just as big. I'll touch on three things here: 1. Nintendo was a generation behind on developing HD content. Sony and MS had already been developing HD games on the 360 and PS3 for years and had learned a tremendous amount about tools and cost efficiencies when moving to HD games. Nintendo dramatically underestimated the difficulties and costs of this transition and it had a massive impact on their ability to deliver 1st party titles for the Wii U in a timely fashion. If Nintendo could have hit a software cadence with the Wii U like they have with the Switch, we would be talking about the Wii U as a modest success and not an abject failure. Great games will always draw people in, regardless of marketing confusion. Now it's time to get techy and these two items had a deleterious effect on the success of the Wii U: 2. Even at launch, the Wii U's SDK (software development kit) was a disaster. My team was responsible for having a launch title ready for Day 1 of the Wii U being on the shelves. Documentation for the SDK was a nightmarish collection of poor definitions and sentence fragments written by their Japanese-speaking core technologies division in Japan. When we would hit a roadblock in development due to the poorly defined and under-baked SDK the process went like this: A. Email our contact at Nintendo Japan with our questions. B. That contact would then translate our questions into Japanese then forward to the core technologies engineers at Nintendo of Japan. C: Wait three weeks. D. NoJ engineers reply to our contact who then translates their answer into English and sends it back to us. E. Approximately half of the time, something key would be lost in translation and we'd only get partial answers to our questions. The process would be then restarted with our remaining questions. I honestly don't know how we got that title out the door in a stable fashion at launch. 3. Lastly, Nintendo made some of the most inexplicably bad hardware decisions with the Wii U internals I've ever seen in my time in the industry. It's literally as if the Wii U was designed by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. For every smart thing they did, they did something mind-bendingly stupid. They packed in a tremendous GPU that was significantly more powerful than the GPU's in the 360 and PS3. They also packed in 2GB of RAM which was great at the time. They did have out of order execution and instruction reordering which allowed for less random performance penalties. But here are the problems that completely undermined those good decisions: A. I have to be careful here as I am still under NDA for elements of the Wii U CPU after all these years, so I'll be speaking in fairly general terms. The CPU was very similar to the Wii, just beefed up with cache and clockspeed. This meant no modern technologies that we take for granted like an SIMD instruction set. There was none to speak of on this CPU. Games get tremendous benefit fro technologies like SSE/VMX/AltiVec that allows for multiple parallel data sets. This is especially important with animation and particle systems. The Wii U cpu had nothing here. B. The amount of memory was wonderful, the memory bandwidth was horrifically bad. Getting data from RAM to the CPU was FAR slower on the Wii U than it was on the 360 or PS3 despite there being a 4 year delta between those systems. Migrating 360/PS3 code to the Wii U is nightmarish because all of your memory pre-feteching optimizations on the old code were worthless on the Wii U. C. One of the most important things I want to get across here is how bizarre Nintendo's approach was with the CPU. Most game consoles will take an existing desktop architecture and modify it to make sense for a game console. Typically general computing features are removed from the chip in favor of more specialized features that are geared towards game performance. In Nintendo's case, they dropped specialized features like vector math units (great for game coding) and kept more general computing elements. I can't express to non-coders how insane this was. The culmination of the bad SDK/support and terrible hardware design was games that were much slower to market and couldn't take full advantage of the serious horsepower hidden within the Wii U. The amount of work and dev time for 3rd parties making multi-plat titles to get the most out of the Wii U just wasn't worth it given that the console wasn't selling. As time went on, you saw some great looking games from 1st party studios, but it's because they had the funding and incentive to find novel ways of moving chunks of particles/animation/physics from the CPU to GPU that allowed for efficiency gains. But all of that was done to get around the terrible decision to drop SIMD and the horrendous memory bandwidth of the Wii U. Thank you to anyone who read all the way through. This was much longer than I anticipated but I think these items are a very important part of the Wii U story and why it sadly failed.

Japanese management are awesome. Something similar happened at Sega. Former Chairman Isao Okawa deleted the huge debt Sega owed him and gave Sega $695 million worth of stock to offset the Dreamcasts $502 million losses. It couldnt save the Dreamcast but it kept the company afloat and is the reason why we still have Sega around today.

And in a good way too. Instead of laying off their workers and having a company brain drain, a lot of those workers soon helped the company to quickly recover.

Wii U hater detected R. I. P. Iwata He took pay cuts because he knew that the Wii U is great and needed to kept afloat until the NX.

@@700gsteakYeah and konami, who shamed workers for being a minute late from lunch breaks over loud speakers. And Removed one of their most prominent directors names off of all of his work

​@@ianeons9278 Nintendrone coping detected.

that is kinda dumb but that was nintendos fault for not marketing it correctly. personally to me the wii u doesnt appeal to at all because the library has almost no variety. i love 2d platformers but i need variety so getting a ps4 makes more sense honestly.

Those parents suffer from smooth brain.

Most older parents and grandparents struggle to understand anything media related. Years ago I worked at Target when the first Frozen movie came out; an older lady asked me if we had it on DVD. I told her that the movie was still in theaters and it would be months before it came out on DVD. She found a cartoon movie called "Frozen Land" and decided that was good enough. It was about Eskimos I think.

@@billtree52 one of the most disturbing things I noticed about older people. Their minds are just set in stone and can't understand new concepts. Wonder if we will end up like them when we are 70

@@aceofhearts573 You'll still use the internet, even though internet 2 has already come out

Its not the same game - its not the same content. Sadly Reggie - it was the same game.. with a worse framerate than your 7yr old Xbox

He was doing his best...

@@megamix5403 he was lying

@@megamix5403 His best was garbage, the man was horrible at his job.

@@darkjudge8786 ?

Someone piss in your cereal, man?

​@@darkjudge8786 tf you talking about?

​@@darkjudge8786 Good lord, you are in a video about a game console in a channel dedicated to videogames. What world do you live in to think that is not what people should comment on this place?!?!

@Dark Judge then you'll hate the fact that I'm a 30 year old who loves punk rock music, has the hammer and sickle tattooed on my arm, and (probably the worst thing) think your opinion is totally fine.

They released a bigger battery but only in japan. I have one it was nice it lasted like 10 hours

​@@sweet_sukeban4022No you could get that increased battery just by buying it from Nintendo directly. I got one that way from Nintendo in Australia.

@@UberNoodle I remember that. I don't remember the price, but I remember thinking it was too expensive for something that should have been there in the first place.

Yeah you have to plug in your TV, the console, and another plug for the gamepad every 4 hours... To play Mario Kart, one button and a control stick... Or buy another controller, but the fact that that gives me Sega 32x vibes makes me think what were they thinking.

Should’ve posted a local ad looking to buy just the tablet for a Wii U and see if the knucklehead turns up after a while. A thief who doesn’t know or look into what they steal, wouldn’t be wise enough to look at the profile of the person looking to buy. They’d be too focused on the money.

Its really funny to think that, when I think of the WiiU, I barely think on the fact it was my first console I bought with my money, or the cool gimmick by itself and whatnot, but the thing I think the most of is ZombiU. Its one of my favorite zombie games ever besides left 4 dead and it pains me to see it die in such a sad manner. Although the game did eventually come to other platforms while killing the whole gamepad gimmick which worked so well for ZombiU, it didn't gather as much success and my only and favorite Ubisoft game ever will unfortunately die with so much promise as the WiiU did. It saddens me that its also an impossible game to recommend since, although it did the whole gamepad mechanics just right - creative enough. to justify all its inclusions, clunky but responsive enough to be considered a great survival horror experience, so on, it still has the fact that you need to spend what would be at least in brazil about 1400brl for a single game. Its still cheaper than playing sims 4 with all dlc but that doesn't justify it, and Zombi (PC) lacks so many of the good things the WiiU game had that I can'r justify someone to play it, and its even worse since its kinda like VR, where you can watch someone play and get why they're having fun but only partially, since you need the full hardware to fully understand what it is all about. The WiiU is my biggest love-hate relationship, it had so much to offer, and shockingly enough Ubisoft made a great, an amazing game for their own standards and for the WiiU console, and yet its all going down the drain...

I still have a Wii U. It's my most played system. It's way above decent.

@@Luggi83 For anyone wanting to play StarFox listen carefully, don't play the main story first. Go to training mode and spend about two hours learning the controls, because the motion controls are kinda complicated. There's a minus button that swap screens and you have the ability to turn the motion controls on or off in the pause menu. It's easier to shoot everyone in first person mode, where as all ranged mode is easier for avoiding enemies.

There's a book? I only knew about the interview series that was also going by the same name

Lmao Japanese work ethics, good joke

Shame the company now doesn't carry on his legacy, the man took a paycut to keep his employers in a job I think after the disaster of the WiiU. No other CEO has ever done that in gaming I don't think

@@dnakatomiuk Look up how SEGA stayed alive after the Dreamcast. What Iwata did, while admirable, doesn't come close

@@Kylekashi I think is the same book, but is not only a series of interviews. It also contains a collection of articles written by Iwata.

Not true. The Wii U had plenty of great games during its lifespan. It’s just that he wasn’t appreciative of Rainbow Curse and didn’t even give 3D World a try or any of the other great games like Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Smash 4, Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, Mario Maker, etc. I’m 15 and I’ve always thought it has an abundance of great games from the start when I got it for Christmas 2014 at age 7 having only played my cousins Xbox 360 and maybe Wii before that as well as a Leapster I had.

Thanks for this write up and story man. My son just turned 5. Me and him play Mario party all the time together on the Switch. What precious moments

1) Your kid was a idiot in the first place for wanting the Pii U. He needs better taste in consoles. 2) Switch is trash, it is trash in 2017 and still is in 2023. I wouldn't be caught dead with a Pii U or a Switch. 3) Nintendo games outside of Metroid are pretty crappy. Zelda has not been good since Ocarina of Time which is 20+ years ago.

Same thing happened to me in the mid 90s with the Sega Saturn.

@@Fornax70 Saturn was a very underrated console too

I don't blame Reggie for defending the Wii U so agressively; it was literally his job, and I'm sure he knew the writing was on the wall for the Wii U; he's not an engineer and he's not a higher-up in Nintendo of Japan; the best he could do at that situation is to agressively highlight how different Wii U was compared to the rest. There's an interview Reggie made that was more reflective on the Wii U's failure; I stick to a comment he made after the Switch's success, shortly before he quit; talking about the Wii U, Reggie said without the Wii U, there would be no Switch. The Switch was an evolution of an idea that was born with the Wii U; which was taking your game off the TV.

@@Dairunt1 The Wii U walked so the Switch could run. Certainly not Microsoft or Sony were going to ever make a system like that; Sony gave up on their handhelds because even being second place in a 2-party war was too much for their egos to handle, and Microsoft never did handhelds in the first place, and to the extent they did with Zune and Windows Phone they were complete failures. Nintendo was not a clear generation winner with SNES, N64, Gamecube, or Wii U, yet Nintendo kept on hustling, and yet no one talks shit about those even though, like with the Wii U, what select few games it had to its own were very satisfying to the people who actually owned the machine and gave it its own edge among the competition even if it didn't decimate it outright

@@cosmosofinfinity I don't know if it was an ego thing, but Sony was clearly not interested in the handheld market after smartphones took over. Even if they made the right moves for the Vita; a $199 launch price, a microSD card slot, actually invest in major games for the thing, the success would have been modest at best. What I lament is that the Xperia Play was an awesome idea that was taken down so quickly because two Sony branches (Sony Computar Entertainment and Sony Ericsson) couldn't unify their vision. The Xperia Play could have been fantastic competition against the Switch in 2017, and Sony moving their handheld division to make Android games would have made more sense.

It would seem that the 3DS really is what they learned from. -Portable -Cheaper then main competition -Not the most powerful but pretty good battery life. -focus on semiHardcore gaming fan base

@@RusticRonnie3ds is a good console

nintendo are in the same boat as the wiiu now with their new consle that will replace the switch. its inpossible to reach the succsess of the switch twice in a row. it will be interesting to see how they handle it this. time.

​@@jackobyuk Sony has done it. PS1 and PS 2 dominated their generations. So it could happen again. Unlikely but it could happen.

@@RusticRonnie Nintendo Switch is casual

There have been others that were equally good and others that go into more detail with the Wii U. It’s not really necessarily the best.

Tbh the best thing about the wii u was the eshop. Tons of legacy content, but sadly it's all gone and I don't think nintendo will ever replicate that

@@israelruiz8706 I feel you there, the 3DS saved my life from depression (weight lifting did also) and I will always love the eshop and my 3DS for the memories associated with them. Shame the shop is shut down :(

"but I admire the fan base it has." lol wut?

@Pewpewpew182 nice man. Glad it was able to help you out. I remember smash bros being my escape and the wii u was my most played system because of it

Everyone got a paycut not just him…

Yeah I love my Wii U, had some great games, which I now also have on Switch like Mario 3D World, Mario U, Luigi U, Mario Maker, Hyrule Warriors, DKC Tropical Freeze and Bayonetta 2. Also had Paper Mario Color Splash, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wonderful 101, Twilight Princess HD, Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard. Wii U definitely had some great games. And I still play some Wii games on it. Just beat New Mario Bros Wii a couple weeks ago, and I bought Soul Calibur Legends so I'm gonna try that out soon. Wii U rules.

@@mattjindrak Hell yeah :)

The Wii U is a beast of a console for Nintendo legacy content. Virtual Console >>>>>>>> 💩 >>>>>>>>>>> NSO

It’s an amazing console.

I really loved my Wii U too

Agree, the fact that Microsoft carried that forward with the xbox one and their focus on TV, demonstrates how that trend was just so wide of the mark.

@@Monkey_SK not really the same thing, actually.

It is.

@@Monkey_SK "TV, TV, TV, TV, TV, TV" - Xbox One reveal

They did it previously. With the GameCube. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/i6Z2Z6-BrWmXzmQ.html

They gave you hyrule warriors or whatever it was called…. Just turns out the “next zelda game” was actually a dynasty warriors clone lol

Same i was disappointed upon seeing the cel shaded graphics back when botw was announced (it’s a beautiful game, no doubt)… im more of a tp fan

It was just a tech demo to demonstrate the console HD capabilities. It was never meant to be the next Zelda look. They literally said that when it was demoed.

@@Ghostsonplanets so? I’d like a Zelda that pushed graphical boundary rather than looking like Vaseline smeared potatoes

Same. Nintendo Land is amazing.

At least Nintendo got the chance to correct their mistake of the Wii U with the Switch. Unlike Sega who were already too little too late to correct their mistake of the Sega Saturn with the Dreamcast.

​@@fusscoopland9680 indeed

@@fusscoopland9680 SEGA of Japan and SEGA of America were too busy infighting to correct any mistakes anyway

to lazy or maybe the lack of know how to

That's the thing Nintendo treats everyone like crap even if your their number 1 customer

They know how to make games, but they seriously suck at customer relations. At least from a Western standpoint. There probably a lot of cultural issues underneath it all too.

Bad decision for you but good for Big N 🤑

@@rokker333 huh? How did I take a loss? I could’ve modded a switch, still could I just didn’t give a crap. Weak sauce dude.🤭

So paid online and overpriced ports is a good thing? The Switch era is great but it does have some downgrades from the Wii U/3DS era.

@@ianeons9278Exactly

​@Ian Eons They didn't say that everything in the Switch era is fantastic, they just said that Nintendo recovered from the Wii U era.

@@CommanderWiggins But the Wii U era was still better in some ways. But the Switch era is also better in other ways.

@@ianeons9278 my god did u skip school or what. Simple comprehension skills. The topic is not about good or bad, it’s about success or not

My wife got me one last year for my bday and Ive used alot more than I thought especially to play wii games in HD

@@wangchung2157 Aww, that's so sweet of her!

You should be. It was a quality gaming platform doomed by Nintendo fumbling the ball through marketing. I would've bought one myself to play Xenoblade Chronicles X but I'm not paying launch prices for a defunct system.

@@BronzeLincolns81 Makes sense. It’s illogical to pay launch prices for an old game even if it’s great.

Same, I thought it was a handheld version of the Wii. Kinda like PSP is for PS2 or PS Vita for PS3

They should've called it the Wii DS. It tells you exactly what it is.

@@samueleinhorn6713 It's even more confusing

@@steelbear2063 How? It tells you exactly what it is, it's a Wii with the features of the DS, among other things. It may be confusing without the right marketing, but it's certainly not more confusing than Wii U.

@@samueleinhorn6713 calling it Wii DS just reinforces the concept that it's a peripheral, not a console

The Wii U was a confusing console. I thought it was a tablet add on for the wii

Yep!

Those who don’t look back on history are doomed to repeat it. That’s what project Q feels like to me.

@@bearerofbadnews1375 of course they do look at the history, that’s why project Q is an accessory, not a console system.

You could already do that with the PSP and PS3.

​​@@konradfunnd plot twist: I didn't have a PlayStation 3 or PSP. Also it wasn't a mandatory feature on PlayStation 3. In fact the list of games that supported it is quite small. So even if I did have a PlayStation 3 or PSP, it would not have been as useful to me as it was with my Wii U.

@@UberNoodle its not mandatory xbox either, his point was you could do this on playstation before the WiiU. Sony made the innovation, assuming you ignore PC gaming The Vita and PS3/PS4 combo was still the best version of this. But steam Deck + Gaming PC is probably a close second, the only issue being that the steam deck is a little large and you might as while use it stand alone.

​@@RusticRonnieSo there was no innovation in Nintendo making the feature intrinsic to the system itself. I see. But I gravely apologise for angering the Playstation Gods by not explicitly acknowleging a gimmick that failed to gain traction in its time, irrespective of how innovative it was. Note too the topic of this video is WiiU.

Imagine playing an Xbox console in 2023 lmao. I feel sorry for you bruh.

PC, you can use 2 displays or 7 if you want

@@RusticRonnie I know thank you but I meant for consoles but do you know the limit on how many you can for pc? Asking for a friend… 👀

I hear that the GameCube hardware is still inside and if you hack a Wii U you'll basically have 3 consoles in 1. I'd like to do that, never owned a Nintendo console

I keep my Wii U for Xenoblade Chronicles X. It still hasn’t been ported to the switch yet.

@Bearer of Bad news 13 I still have that too. So good. Remember when I got devils third for $5 at target. Now it's god knows how much.

The Wii U is hands down the best Nintendo console for backwards compatibility when modded, especially for Gamecube games. It supports gc games (backups, not discs) + gc controllers natively (controllers just need the Wii U GC controller adapter.) It supports nearly every title on the Gamecube natively and displays all the games in a very crisp 480p through HDMI and arguably gives you the cleanest picture overall for those games (even over an actual Gamecube.) It also can play DS, N64, NES, SNES and obviously Wii games, as well, all in HD. The Wii U of course also has some great games of its own that never got re-released, like the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD remakes. It actually overall turned out to be a really awesome hidden gem of a console.

@@ReallyRyan. Can you use the Wii U gamepad/pro controller to play GC games or do you specifically need a GC controller? And if so - do you need an original one or can you use those kinda GameCube controllers that Nintendo released for Smash on Wii U?

Sony proved that with PS4 and PS5. Those consoles had mediocre content but good marketing.

@@Noname15514 Are you just talking about when they launched? I think the 4 has great games, but I was kind of late to the PS4 bandwagon so I don't really know what was out back in 2013-2015. But I think the PS4 was handed success because their two competitors both tripped out the gate and face planted. And while I love the Wii U, I think they kind of doomed it by barely matching the graphics of the PS3. The game pad could do some pretty creative things, but mostly for casual games. For most others, the game pad couldn't do much to offset the fact that the console was a generation out of sync.

It was more than just marketing. Lacked games, lacked proper tech, and so many games relied on that dual screen gimmick. For example, the Star Fox Wii U Controls were an embarrassment.

@@Walrus286 Star Fox Zero is actually underrated.

Could

The marketing was bad but you can't put all the blame on it. Nintendo didn't release a single proper game utilizing the second screen in a meaningful way. It was a bad decision to base the entire system around a gimmick that nobody had an idea what to do with.

@@Golemoid You absolutely can put all the blame on marketing when the majority of consumers, reviewers, and media outlets had no idea what the product was years after its release. Quality games wouldn't have saved a platform everyone saw as an add on with a price tag the same as what they already bought. What a different a properly executed marketing campaign makes with the Switch poised to break the all time console sales record by the end of the year.

@@BronzeLincolns81 You can't polish a turd. After an entire long generation of gimmicky controllers, stale graphics and lacking 3rd party on Nintendo part, the last thing people wanted was another console that did just that. It was weaker than the PS3, but almost as expensive as PS4. The controller was pointless and there was no games. No amount of marketing magic would convince people that Wii U is worth their money. Pretty much the only people who bought it were the hardcore Nintendo fans and almost nobody else. Switch sold well because: a) it's a handheld first and foremost, Nintendo handhelds always sell well. b) Zelda on release day and Mario the same year. Wii U had NO new Zelda or 3D Mario. c) people were obsessed with graphics and resolution when 8th gen started, not so much halfway in. So low specs were devastating for Wii U but not the Switch. And it was actually quite powerful for a handheld. d) Switch was marketed well because the gimmick was marketable. People wanted a hybrid system, so it was an easy sell. Nobody wanted a weak home console with a useless tablet controller that isn't even portable. Marketing won't help you if your product is crap. Ignoring all those factors and saying it's all because of marketing is, well... ignorant. Sony never had good marketing either, but their products speak for themselves. Wii U was just a dud and that's all there is to it.

@@Golemoid for whatever reason youtube erased half my response. The WiiU being thought of as a peripheral is well documented. No one is going to buy what they already have at the price of what they already have and better graphics weren't gonna save it. Part of marketing is communicating to the consumer what a product is. Nintendo failed miserably at this and had people thinking this was a $300 add to a Wii. The casual consumers who made the Wii the winner over the PS3 and XB1 weren't gonna buy an add on for that much. As far as 3rd party support, the Switch doesn't have that either. No big time 3rd party AAA titles on Switch as it's being carried solely by their inhouse and first party lineup.

​@@BronzeLincolns81 Some people were confused at first, but the idea that if they knew Wii U was a new console then it would sell just as well as Wii or Switch, is just crazy talk. By the time MK8 and SSB4 have released, everybody already knew what it was. But at that point PS4 and XB1 were already out, and nobody cared about what was effectively a last gen system. When proper next gen games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 started coming out, it was obvious to everyone that Wii U was an obsolete system. Even Nintendo have abandoned it at that point. Wii U was not just a terrible core gaming console, but also a bad Wii successor. There was no Wii sports at launch, and barely anything else to attract that casual audience. They have moved on to mobile, and came back for the Switch. I could go on and on, Wii U was a failure on every level. But you want to pretend those problems don't exist, and that it failed solely because of external reasons.

The Wii U itself broadcast a very low latency wifi signal, which the Gamepad connected to. And they seemed to use a compression technique that worked with the hardware while being as low latency as possible. The downside to their methods were the range though, and likely the resolution had to be low to keep the latency low and less intensive for the Wii U

It wasn’t stable at all… duck you talking about

It also helped they weren’t failing even before that, since they still had a lot of money stowed away in the event of something bad happening

Only a matter of time before a GVMERS do a tragedy on Microsoft’s Xbox One. LOT to digest on that screwup.

I wouldn't say the Wii U was ahead of its time, quite the opposite. Don't get me wrong it had some great games and I still have mine, but I wouldn't compare it to Dreamcast which genunely was ahead of its time.

How was it ahead of it’s time 😂you really just watched this entire video and STILL think it’s ahead of it’s time 🤦‍♂️

@@Skullet in the Wii U’s defense it did outsell Sega’s Dreamcast by 3.4 million units. But it’s still a minimal consolation considering it went toe to toe with Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s mighty PlayStation 4.

Now where the hell is Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD

The Switch really gave us a perspective on Wii U's massive failure when its best selling game: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is a port, outsold the Wii U itself by 3x

@@w21aaaaa The Switch itself outselling the Wii U in its first year was also a big indicator, which surprised even me. I was confident the Switch was going to sell better, but I expected the first year to be a respectable 8-10 million, not well into 8 figures.

I waited a year to buy it because of a poorly timed and lengthy bought of unemployment. My list of favorites include a few oddballs... Rayman, Tank! Tank! Tank!, Splatoon and (I'm not joking) Devil's Third.

rayman legends was HUGE for me and monster hunter 3 ultimate

$50 a year isn't the astronomical back breaking price people are making it out to be. When you're dealing with piraters who have no desire to pay for anything, something other than free is considered highway robbery.

Yep, nintendo deserved this and much more. For instance, after the financial loss from the wiiu's failure, higher-ups took a pay cut instead of laying-off employees, which sound noble right?, but made them pay by overworking them. Nintendo is a sh[...]t company.

I would take it back to Goodwill because garbage belongs there.

​@@LUCKO2022the wii u is not garbage I haven't played my switch in months since I've hacked my wii u

@@Greenish_BT Garbage

@Greenish_BT Wow a hacked Wii U. So impressive. So you can run emulators on it. Oh gee golly. It is not like I can't do that to my PC which is hooked up to my TV via HDMI. You sure got me.

@@LUCKO2022 Jesus christ I ain't wasting 2000 bucks on a pc that will become obsolete in a month just to play nintendo land

Sony is set to release a control pad just like that of the WiiU sometime this year.

Well yes but also no. It cannot leave the house the console is in.

I’ll take the Wii U library over the Virtual Boy library any day. And I own both, FYI.

yike