Sad but inevitable fate for the WiiU as Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime broke the news.

Speaking to Polygon following the Switch launch event in New York City last Friday, he had the following to say: “From a first-party standpoint, there's no new development coming after the launch of the legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” he said. “We really are at the end of life for Wii U.”

He added that Wii U titles will continue to be sold at retail and on the Nintendo eShop, and the company had not begun any discussion for ceasing online services for the console: “From our standpoint, sunsetting is quite some time into the future. The ongoing activity from an online standpoint on [Mario] Kart and Splatoon is significant. We're going to continue to support that.”

The WiiU has been around for about four and a half years and failed to meet the expectations that the big N had for it. “Even today when I ask people, ‘so what was Wii U all about?,’ I get a wide variety of responses,” Reggie had to say on the matter. “In managing the business, that's just not good.” The company is however much more confident (hopeful?) about their upcoming console touting the slogan “a home console you can take with you".

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[retrofan_k]

"Breath of the Death" ;p

Whatever, Nintendo. Just make sure not to issue another update and I'll be happy.

You know they are gonna do a last minute WiiU update and LOZ will require 5.5.2. It would be perfect timing

 

[Bladexdsl]

doubt it they have pretty much abandoned the wiiu.

 

[Pachee]

Since the Switch isn't THAT much more powerful than Wii U (see Splatoon 2, Mario Kart Deluxe etc) they could easily release games like Arms for Wii U as well.
The additional developing and distributing costs would be low, especially if they were to only release them on the Eshop.
At the end of the Wii period sales were really bad and Wii U was still not in sight. They could have easily ported 3DS games onto the Wii but they didn't. A few 3rd party developers actually did it.

This. The Wii U never had a proper Pokemon Spinoff like Stadium/Gale/Colosseum/BattleRevolution and also it didn't get a mainline Fire Emblem game. Just try to think about how much people would have head jumped into X/Y, Sun/Moon, Awakening/Fates/Echoes HD versions on the Wii U, let alone other games.
Nintendo missed a huge chance to still support the console while double dipping from sales.

 

[Noctosphere]

so yea, switch wont replace wii u, right ninty?

 

[Fil o_O]

so yea, switch wont replace wii u, right ninty?

I bought my Wii U in 2014. I watched a let's play of someone mid 2015 of Mario 3d World. He mentioned something about a new life style platfrom being announced by Nintendo, called NX. I have known for one and a half years that the NX, Switch, had replaced the poorly selling Wii U as soon as it got announced. This cannot be news for you?

 

[Bonestorm]

5 years is decent enough

 

[rickwj324]

Personally, I would love to see the Switch be a failure and have Nintendo become a 3rd party provider of games. It would probably never happen, but i'd much rather play the latest and greatest Mario/Zelda/etc games on a PS4 utilizing the better hardware and a "no gimmicks" controller like the PS4 or Xbox controller. Nintendo focuses way to much on using gimmicks on underpowered devices. I don't want to wave a wand in the air or blow into a controller while hopping on one foot, just give me two analog sticks, some buttons to mash, and Mario in glorious HD!!

I bought a wii mainly for Super Mario Galaxy 1&2. Other than the staple Nintendo games (Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, SSB, etc) that system had mostly nothing but crap titles (hundreds of them in fact). I bought a Wii-U in 2014 along with about 10 games for it and barely touched it after. I've since modded it and have all of the Wii-U games, Wii games, Gamecube games, and many emulators on it. I'm a firm believer of buying the games I like to support the system, but that system was DOA by the time I bought it in 2014. I still think that Nintendo should've supported it a little longer than focusing on the NX/Switch.

Being a teenager from the 80's I've grown up on video games from the beginning and my love for the classic Nintendo characters will never die. However, I don't see myself investing in this new system anytime soon (if ever). Who knows, maybe Mario Odyssey will make me change my mind, but as a company that's making hardware I'm finding it harder to support the Big N!

Rick

 

[Pachee]

so yea, switch wont replace wii u, right ninty?

Nintendo is the only company lying like this and getting away with it.

Lmao even the failed 2DS got a spot there.

 

[Bladexdsl]

nintendo luvs to lie