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The Wii U with the main console hardware and the GamePad with an embedded touchscreen. Nintendo's Wii U was released in November 2012. It was designed as a successor to the Wii to provide a more sophisticated experience and draw back "core" gamers that had dismissed the Wii, which they found was aimed for casual gameplay.
While Nintendo found success in its predecessor, the Wii, in the 2000s, the Wii U was a commercial failure. Its concept and usage of the Wii U GamePad confused consumers, and its hardware, while comparable to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 , was significantly weaker than the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launched a year later.
This was the last event to be broadcast by G4 along with being the last one to feature a physical press conference by Nintendo which mainly focused on games that were coming to the then upcoming Wii U video game console that launched later that year and was later considered to be a commercial failure.
The House of Mario expects to lose a little more than previously thought. Bloomberg reports that Nintendo now projects to lose $837 million, increased from the previous estimate of $258 million ...
Judging from Nintendo's E3 presence last year, this whole "asymmetric play" thing may have seemed like not much more than a gimmick. But this year, the storied games company has billed that as the ...
For the first new game console in six years, the weekend's U.S. launch of the Nintendo Wii U turned out to be solid if not spectacular. A new PlayStation 4 from Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and a new ...
Nintendo had anticipated the Wii U would sell similarly to the Wii, but it ended up selling worse than the GameCube and became Nintendo's least successful home console to date. [54] Nintendo officially discontinued the Wii U on January 31, 2017, due to its commercial failure, to make way for its second competitor, the Nintendo Switch, released ...
Nintendo will continue its effort to make a comeback in the video game console business. It will introduce its new Wii U in Japan on December 8. It is a wonder that the Japanese company will not ...