How Nintendo learned from a Wii U disappointment to create the popular Switch console

For Nintendo, the past six years have been a lesson in learning from disappointment and rebounding with record-breaking success.

Speaking on stage at the GeekWire Summit on Wednesday, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé talked about how the video game giant went from facing lower-than-expected sales with its Wii U console to creating the Nintendo Switch that flew off store shelves.

[chris235]

what about „how nintendo was so delusional to bring the wii u after the wii“

[King_Noctis]

But this article is about the Switch. So? Why don’t you make your own article then?

[ChickeyCantor]

> How Nintendo learned from a Wii U disappointment

>what about „how nintendo was so delusional to bring the wii u after the wii“

Chris are you mentally challenged?

[Vetgamer]

Wii u showed promise build quality and lack of third party killed it. That second screen added so much to local multiplayer.

[obidanshinobi]

Yeah they certainly learned a lot about including a decent sized hard drive / memory didn't they..... and a great online service.....

[TekoIie]

Lol, you did the storage/memory thing.

[2pacalypsenow]

3DS = very popular
Upgrade DS line and make it main console = very popular

[Shikoku]

Except its really not

[2pacalypsenow]

Really not what?

[Shikoku]

Popular the switch has hit its limit it wont move much passed 20 million.

[Imortus_san]

Nintendo did not learned anuthing, they just make another cheap product, only this time in line with the DS that's there most sold console ever, so a more safe concept them the previous, and added some of the Wii features on it.

They still robe you for remasters at full price, they are still recycling the same games all over again, the hardware is still a joke, they don't have proper 3party support so it's them and the indies going all out, Switch online is still inferior to the Xbox 360 from 2005, they did not learned a thing.

[Skankinruby]

There is no sense or consistency to be made of Nintendos successes/failures. Their console gimmicks and rehashed franchises seem to be a coin flip on wether or not people will bite on it. Nintendo 64 had some of the highest rated and still iconic games of all time like goldeneye and ocarina of time and it didn't even hit 35 million sales whIle the wii was at best a party favor with a horrid control scheme and little to no games worth remembering and it cleared the 100 million mark. And here we are with switch, just another gimmick and people are treating it like Nintendo 'learned from their mistakes'. They didn't learn anything, they're just rearranging the same idea and giving a different name hoping the industry takes to it.

[BlackDoomAx]

They learned that form is more important than content.