Electronics City - Why is the Nintendo Wii U Not Comparing To The Xbox One, Playstation 4

When the Nintendo Wii U came out last year, it was met with a ton of optimism from gamers & non-gamers alike who enjoyed its predecessor, the Nintendo Wii. 

The Wii allowed gamers to get up & exercise, while being able to play their favorite games, thus staying in shape & having a great gaming adventure, not to mention being very popular at parties. 

The Nintendo Wii U - 32GB Version.

When the Wii U finally hit the stands, people that I knew were a bit confused on how everything worked with it in terms of the handheld device that allows you to have a different look of the screen as opposed to looking actually at the screen itself. 

While the hardcore gamers will talk about the graphics & a bunch of stuff that the casual gamer like yours truly probably won't know or care about, the biggest reason for the downfall of the Wii U is because many gamers had already gotten word about the upcoming Playstation 4 & Xbox One consoles that would come out the following year - in 2013. 

With the economy still working itself out and people rethinking how they spent their money, the Wii U appealed basically to the hardcore Nintendo fans who knew that there would be some kind of Super Mario reincarnation coming out, which still does awesome to this very day. It didn't have the features that will keep non-gamers using the system, outside of the Netflix & Hulu Plus. Many users use their game consoles for so many things other than playing video games, particularly with the cost of cable & satellite steadily increasing by the day, & the Wii U doesn't appeal to that group at the present time. 

The Wii U, according to a market research report that was sent to IGN, has only done 25% off the sales of the Nintendo Wii, which just went over 100 million consoles sold worldwide. While those numbers are nothing to laugh at, my guess is that there were far higher hopes from Nintendo with this unit, with no direct competition from Microsoft & Sony. 

Nintendo has become a niche video game product, more than ever before, but from a business standpoint, there is still so much money to be made in that area due to one thing - Mario. That will keep this company a float for a while - but Nintendo has to hope that the Mario luster never goes away. If so, it could be a long road back to prominence for the famed company.