TONS of Reasons Why The Wii U Failed in Under a Minute... 

I like the Wii U myself. It has some great games, an awesome Virtual Console, and backwards compatibility with the Wii! It was very well worth it for me

“The Wii U outsold Sweden” Scott Wozniak

I think a very big reason you didnt mention is Nintendo taking down like every youtube video with any Nintendo games in them. They were actively discouraging people trying to tell about their games they love

The Wii U felt more alive and less lonely than the original Wii.

Nintendo did the Wii U dirty it had great games and a great controller, they just didn’t know how to sell it

One feature that I liked but didn't use enough was that some games were also 3DS compatible and can be played on the Wii u with the 3DS; like super smash bros. That feature with both of those systems had a lot of potential

The Wii U is so nostalgic for me! Ur my favorite RU-vidr

Wii U is a perfect example of how much more creative older things were, they packed a lot more features thanks to that. Having the second screen, TV remote, stylus and all that in your controller is amazing to me to this day.

Wii U was really an unfortunate console. Lots of mistakes and marketing blunders turned this into a very underrated and underappreciated console.

Back then, I loved the wii u commercials, but that might be because I was 8

If it weren't for the Wii U, there'd be no Switch

I LOVE the wii U games. Mario maker, wind waker hd, Skylanders trapteam.. That not counting that you can play wii games (pokepark is my personal favorite)

Wii party (Wii U addition) was such a fun game to play with friends and family ngl

The clip of that amiibo commercial shown in the video is a pure cinematic masterpiece

It seems like the Wii U commercials have at the very least shown that kids are not the only ones interested in Nintendo as some annoying people say sometimes.

I’m 12 and used to have a Wii U. It broke due to a memory issue. After years of failure, I finally managed to emulate Wii U games on my PC. My favorite game right now is Super Smash Bros, specifically the Wii U version.

3 big why it failed 1. Price 2. No one really Finder out what was it 3. Power Bonus. Not many good games

The Wii U's PowerPC chip was interesting to me, Nintendo has been using IBM PowerPC CPUs since 2001. Something interesting about the Wii (and maybe the Wii U) is that you can run Mac OS 9 on it with minimal emulation

The Wii U is pretty decent. Sad to see a wonderful console wasted away.

I don’t get why people say it didn’t sell well, if you round it up to the nearest 27 millionth, you get 27 million

I used to have a Wii U years ago, before I got my finger hurt by putting a Nintendo Wii U disc in, and my mom had to sell it, because she didn’t want me hurting my finger on it again. I miss the Wii U😢😭😭😭. I wish my mom wouldn’t sell it if I hadn’t hurt my finger in the past.

Wii U deserved love

Super Mario Maker was not immediately ported to the 3DS. Nor was Yoshi's Wooly World, the only other game that was ported to the 3DS. SMM: September 2015 for Wii U and December 2016 for 3DS YWW: June2015 for Wii U and January 2017 for 3DS

The WiiU was me and my siblings first TV console, even with all the consoles we have now the WiiU still is at the top for us. Heavily Underrated Console.

I hate everyone who hates Wii U

I'm a Nintendo fanboy but the Wii U intro presentation and following ads just had me scratching my head. In actuality, it was the Switch ahead of its time. With more advance tech and better execution, the Switch pulled off what the Wii U could've been.

I love how no one brings up how shitty the connection it had to the port was. Move that thing like 5 steps away and it loses connection 💀

Three words free online gaming

I Got a Wii U back in 2016, a whole year before it was discontinued and the The Nintendo Switch Came out!

My favorite games for WiiU (which is my second favorite console) are Smash 4, Super Mario Bros U, Super Mario Maker and Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival (The fact that I like Amiibo Festival makes it a little strange for me and maybe for others too)

My dumbass thought he meant it failed in 60 seconds 💀💀

Back when the Wii u was out I wanted to get it, even without seeing any of the weird ads, and was 9 years old, and understood that it was a new console

Even as a child the marketing was a really big deterrent for games like Splatoon.

I personally went from the Wii to the PS4 myself. Because of it I got to experience games I otherwise wouldn’t have on Nintendo consoles at the time. Persona 5, the South Park games, street fighter V, and a higher frame rate too. It worked out in the end because now all the best Wii U titles have either been ported to the switch or have sequels that replace them.

More like tons of reasons to insult 13.56 million people 💀

bad marketing killed this

2014-2017 was the best time for the Wii U

I don't care at all about third party compatibility. I loved the Wii U, and at the time, it was my biggest Christmas present *ever.* It was unheard of in my family to get anything for Christmas over, like, $200. I got the Wii U/Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle, complete with a DLC code, and Super Mario Maker. I had so much fun with that Wii U, and it also had some great virtual console titles as well. The Xbox One and PS4 never lived up to the Wii U for me, especially considering how the best non-Nintendo console, the Xbox 360, was one that I already had and had played a lot beforehand.

#1: Xenoblace Chronicles X #2: Virtual console #3: RIP 😭

In hindsight I think the Wii U was an amazing console. If Nintendo had just advertised it properly it would have sold probably around 40-60 million units comfortably

Bro has summoned the Mexicans with the croods

As a 12 year old I would NOT buy a Wii U after watching those ads, I'd say anyone under 9

I think the dumbest feature they did and made mandatory was the fact that you NEEDED to use the gamepad and it's controls along with it. Made me not even consider buying it even after all these years but I got me a Wii though 😂

As someone who can’t see very well, the Wii U really helped me get into certain games and made them accessible.

I feel like the Wii U could have been saved easily with a few tweaks. If Nintendo had just put some effort into making it able to render Wii games in HD, I bet a lot of people would have bought it for this feature alone.

The Wii U (for me) is the best console Nintendo has made all of the online communities and getting to know people on Miiverse was the best, the music was the best, the games may not have been what you hoped for but they’re still pretty good and it created franchises such as Splatoon and Mario Maker and the compatibility to play the original Wii as well.

And then they put 'U' after the games and were like "YA GUYS IT'S NEW IT'S NEW GIVE US MONEYY"

While the Wii U was an absolute failure, and I loved it when I was younger. I think because of the Wii U, it only fed the knowledge to Nintendo for the switch’s success

The Wii U menu music tho it gives me chills

Nintendo shot themselves in the foot with the wii u, they advertised to parent's when most of their market is kids without activity showing its a new console instead of an expensive peripheral.

The 3DS got Wii U ports because by 2015-2016, the Wii U was already dead so it makes sense.

It’s sad how there are only about 10M working Wii U’s left.

The Wii u eShop ost goes hard

When I was younger I only wanted a Wii U for Mario 3D world lol

In all those years Nintendo worked on the switch and looking back on it. It's insane so many IP's were revived and thanks to that we got Pikmin 4 and so many other great 1st party games that if weren't for the switch they would've never seen the light of day!

I love the Wii U so much... Such a good little library, and a fun concept with the two screens.

The ads were crazy

I LOVED the Wii U got it for Christmas 2015

I don’t think anyone over the age of 10 should buy something after they see a ad that says “hot buttered popcorn that’s a deal”

Why would a little kid want to buy it based of the commercial? There is a reason they use teens/preteens to advertise to young kids. They all want to play with what they think the big kids have.

I got the wii u because my old wii broke, and i was surprised it didn't have the terrible crash sound

Wii U is the most underrated console ever imo

Splatoon sells it for me idc if it selled badly woomy is amazing

I’d personally say it also has to do with the games themselves specifically how impressive they looked for example the main Mario game for the Wii u was 3D world and the main game for the switch was odyssey even for the Wii galaxy looked way more impressive than 3D world not saying it was bad but it was obvious that the biggest issue with the Wii u was the games were too similar to other Wii or 3ds games or no one really cared about them and actual new interesting games were released too late in the consoles’ life to impact sales.

"to introduce a new console as a new controller thats not a good sign" literally the switch: :0

I dont have a wii u but some day wii u gave me a nightmare with wii fits “Measuring” sound. (I have a Wii btw)

Tears of the kingdom got more sales than the Wii U 😮

I wish all of the wii u features were on switch like virtual console and a proper home screen

I spent my early childhood with the wii u

I wished the switch released in November 2020 so Nintendo would've made more games for it

An upside is, it's easy as hell to mod.

This and the Xbox one is what we had growing up😅so nostalgic and loved the video games lol

my child self liked the wii u commercials

Honestly, they should've made a huge update for the Wii and just market the gamepad as an accessory.

I have never met anyone who had the WiiU and disliked it. Even with this video I don't understand why it flopped (apart from lack of support due to lack of intrest)

It’s weird because I actually knew a decent amount of people who owned a wii u

I was 10 years old when I bought the wii u, and I'm glad that I had bought it because I have made so much memories with it. One of the best consoles in my opinion

I was 7 and a huge Nintendo fan when the Wii U came out, so of course that’s what I got. But I got a ps4 in 2019 and in retrospect, that’s what I would have gotten that Gen if I was older and could only pick one

If it’s 2014 and you’re a Nintendo fan you buy a 3DS. That’s what you buy.

The most shocking part is it had decent games

Oh well you know, games like yoshi's wooly world and mario maker didnt come to the 3ds until WAAAAAAAY after the wiiu's relevancy. This was mere moments before the switch's release. So the wiiu hadnt lost any sales from the 3ds ports

I just like really the Wii U cuz it joins the Wii to another console, and on switch the only thing we get was the separation of the gamepad of Wii U

"Would you buy a wii u, xbox, or PS4?" Me: D, all of the above

I love the wii u ads they’re so ridiculous

Wii u is cool except for how broken any and all homebrew is

I didn't even know the Wii U was a different console I thought it was an expansion onto the Wii.

Wii U was my favourite console but the marketing was awful

I was like 6 when the wii U dropped and I loved it when I got it but the fact they did good with one game commercial and that was the Mario kart 8 commercials

The real reason is your parents say don't you allready have a wii thats the real problem give it a new name

I'm over 13, I don't regret buying a wii U

The wii u was my childhood console

I love the Wii U, its one of my favorite consoles It’s the console I built soo many memories when I was younger, I have a almost 10 year old Minecraft that I still play, and the backwards compatibility is something I miss on the switch The only thing I disliked about the Wii U are the Mii,s, those looked hideous

I really wanted a Wii U when I was a teenager, unfortunately it was too expensive for me

What bugs me about the wii u is that it had great games and honestly was so much fun with friends but they marketed it so bad now they learned the mistakes with the switch and also ported over a lot of games but still the wii u has some games that are amazing not seen on switch

If u were over the age of 13 and already had an original Wii or another console chanced are you wouldn’t have bought it. Fortunately I was only 5 when it came out and didn’t own an original Wii so I ended up getting a Wii U for Christmas 2014 when I was only 7.

I was 6 when it came out and I really thought it was Wii accessorie

i wish the wii u did a lot better, i actually have one myself and ngl i actually like it more than the switch tbh, back in the days i used to play on it all the time until i started my internet career in 2019, and i still do to this day occasionally just not that often anymore

There's a reason Nintendo chose to do these things, it's a billion dollar company...

The Wii U was my only choice for a console upgrade because I didn't really like any Xbox or Playstation titles

I had never even heard of a wii u until I heard mention of it on the internet, which I'm pretty sure it was in the switch's early years.