2026-10-22 07:23 UTC
Usually the thing that’s mentioned as a big marketing mistake is the name.
If you were already looking into it you’d probably know it was a new console. But to casual gaming enthusiasts (and those were a huge part of the wii/DS success), or to people that just didn’t follow Nintendo news closely, it really wasn’t clear.
Some believed “Wii U” was just a new attachment for a wii, or just a new wii edition, rather than an actual different console with about halfway gen6-7 capabilities.
They did the exact same mistakes with the "3"DS and only survived a very rocky launch with a quick repricing and a lot more marketing. Wii U never really recovered.
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@MurrayL@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 07:39
The name is usually what people blame, but if that’s the case why did they succeed with NES being followed up by SNES? Or Game Boy followed by Game Boy Color and then Game Boy Advance? Hard to fault them for following a pattern that had worked great for them in the past.
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@MoreZombies@quokk.au 2026-10-23 02:52
It also didn’t help that the 3DS didn’t release with many (if any) games hahaha.