Why does everyone say the Wii U was short lived?

Stop the constant Nintendo shilling,close your mouth,get off of your knees and leave. Dont forget to wipe your chin.

ive played a few...however most of the GwG and PS+ ones are bad.

@jcrame10:

I don't know what indie games you have played, to be fair. :P

Most of the ones I play, I have enjoyed. I have Axiom Verge waiting for me too. I heard it's wonderful.

Steamworld Heist is also an incredibly engaging strategy RPG. It blends turn-based strategy with skill-based shooting. Think X-Com on a 2D plane.

It depends what kind of games you like. It could just be that you value the immersive experience AAA games can offer over the simplicity of a solid game-loop.

Did it even live at all? Most people didn't even bother with Wii U as there was very little incentive to get one.

- Weak hardware (a generation behind).

- Overpriced for what it was.

- Gimmick that people didn't care about.

- Watered down first party titles.

- Abysmal third party support.

- Lack of games in general.

Well if you include handhelds, GBA came out in 2001 and DS in 2004.

Because most people assumed that when the PS4 and XBO released, and the Wii U was "last gen" by their simple standards, that it had died along with the PS3 and 360.

@n64dd: the generation before the Wii u had two consoles lasting 10 years, so the length expectation of a generation increased.

It never got a Metroid game. It's finally getting a new Zelda game, but it needed it way sooner. It never got a 3D Mario game like Galaxy, Sunshine, or 64, but rather an improved upon sequel to 3D Land.

Yes it was around all those years, but it never got the games we wanted.

The Nintendo WiiU released November 2012 the Switch is set to release March 2017... That's 4 yrs and 4 months.. (give or take a few days). That's not a "bounce between 5-6 years" friend. That's Ninty ditching a turd as soon as possible.

@OhSnapitz: Thank god. Nobody was buying it. Now with Switch we can try to reach excellence.

Because the Wii U is barely 4 years old, not 5. It released in November.

However if you compare the Switch launch with the 3DS launch, it lines up to a near perfect 6 years. (3DS launched in March 2011)

@LegatoSkyheart: Dang, 3DS is old.

It's an aging beast that's for sure.

After the good year they had in 2014, after the pat on the head they got for turning things around, they pretty much gave it no extra effort and decided to coast the rest of the way. Yeah, its time was short lived.

The droughts killed the system. Hell it had a drought its first year which the GC and Wii didn't have in its first year.

It was short lived because they killed it for what appears to be nothing more than a slightly better system of the same exact ilk with the ability to take it on the go.

They made the Switch which is a home console/portable hybrid Wii U, and carried absolutely nothing over.

This isn't an Xbox to Xbox 360 kind of situation...

because it got no support what so ever and wasnt seen anywhere

how much did it even sale? like 8 million?

@charizard1605: Wii just got just dance 2017 for crying out louf

1. Lack of support, mostly 3rd party.

2. Price. They overvalued it, and wouldn't budge.

OP is such a bandwagoner

Previous Sheep, jumped to COW status, then ditched them and tried being a lem for awhile, got butthurt and jumped back to PS4, and now jumps back to Nintendo.

#noloyalty

No its not. It bloody awful. Its like 2 games a year with minimal 3rd party.

Because it was DOA.

Yeah but well, you see. Not everyone is you. The answer is obvious it had low support.

Because it's compared to an anomaly. They gave it a typical lifespan- rather Iwata would have if he were alive, as Kimishima came in, and basically killed it, because it went from 3+ million a year sales to 800,000 in its one year under him. He didn't really like Iwata continuing it for a full generation, and phased it out as fast as he could, because he wanted Switch only to be in the limelight. Sure, Wii U could have lasted through 2017, but Kimishima didn't want anything more (at least it turned profitable in 2014 so Iwata was able to tout that in his final financial report in 2015).

@lordroberts774: do not bump old threads, especiall threads that have been inactive for over a year