Going for $300, the new Nintendo Switch was revealed on January 12 (2017), and is supposed to be released on March 3, (2017). It's the most important release from the company so far. Why? Well the Wii U was a "commercial flop." The Switch will prove that Nintendo can still make good quality technology. According to Nintendo's numbers, the Wii U was released in 2012 and only sold 13.4 million copy's around the world, unlike Sony's PlayStation which sold 50 million copy's, even though it was released in 2013- one year after the Wii U. We can even compare it to the Wii- which sold an impressive 102 million console's. The Wii U also hurt Super Mario Maker's profits. If the Switch fails like the Wii U, the company should just give up.
But how did the Wii U fail so badly? Some say it wasn't different enough from the original Wii, or it didn't have the "performance bump" seen on the X-box or the PlayStation. It also didn't help that the Wii U had a screen pad, that made it impossible to hold it, and you can't play games like "Call of Duty" and "Grand Auto Theft" on any Nintendo console.
A quick reveal and sneak peak was shown in October of 2016, and it was revealed that the Switch can be played as a traditional tablet, and can be played as a controller to the gaming system. This idea is incredibly risky- especially since the Switch has a touch screen like the Wii U- but this company is all about taking risks with it's hardware.
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ReplyDeleteGreat Blog! I love how you compared the Wii U's failure to other consoles.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you compared Wii U to the Nintendo Switch! :)
ReplyDeleteIf the Switch fails, then Nintendo is done for. They lost so much money with the Wii u already, but if the Switch fails nobody else will buy their products with their bad reputation.
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