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Why is the Wii U considered a flop? (retrofed.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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At the time of its release, the manner on how it they'd marketed that was confusing as they showcased the Wii U gamepad as if its a portable console (its not) since its rather the main controller for the Wii U console. I was in high school when the console was first revealed, my reaction to that was "WTF?" as I thought the gamepad was portable, as the ads often flex that it can be (or the way they showed it came off as that).

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[–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's a commercial flop. Console didn't sold enough, compared to it's predecessor Wii, and the other consoles. Even the XBOX One sold 4 times than Wii U. Let this sink in. And having only a few consoles in the wild also means, less software is sold. The original XBOX sold 24 million and that is even almost twice as much as the Wii U.

  • XBOX sold 24 million
  • Wii sold 101.63 million
  • Wii U sold 13.56 million
  • XBOX One sold 58 million
  • Playstation 4 sold 117.2 million

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

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