The Wii was the last console generation’s undisputed victor, at least in terms of popularity, but its successor hasn’t enjoyed the same level of popularity. In fact, the Wii U is so widely regarded as a failure that it’s almost a joke, and even Nintendo may have decided to abandon the console and focus on future products, much like Microsoft did with Windows 8.
Hey, remember the Wii U? Nintendo would probably like to forget it at this point and VentureBeat’s Mike Minotti makes a compelling case that Nintendo is already shifting its focus to the next big thing since the Wii U at this point seems like a lost cause. Minotti zeroes in on Nintendo’s recent embrace of mobile gaming as a new way to make money as evidence that the company is taking its focus off consoles, and in particular the console that has been a sales nightmare for the company right from the start. He also notes that Nintendo has already started talking about its next console, which is something it wouldn’t do if it believed it could milk several more years out of the Wii U. “Nintendo also announced that it was working on a new hardware platform, codenamed the NX,” he writes. “We don’t know anything about the console, but that Nintendo would already reveal it is telling. It’s common for a company to announce a console a year or two before it comes out, but it is strange to see one unveiled when its predecessor is still relatively young.”