re: Fils-Aime: an artist at saying a lot without saying anything

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Mistake #1 was not clearly differentiating the WiiU from the Wii. Even today I still find people who flat out don't understand that the WiiU is a new system and not just an extra controller for the Wii. Naming it Wii2 or coming up with a non Wii name would have done wonders.

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Agree.

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Mistake #2 was listening to the whiny 3rd party game developers who constantly bitched about never being able to get sales of their games vs Nintendo published games. Nintendo said ok, we'll hold off on releasing some of our bigger series so you guys can establish your stuff at launch. Ubi, Activition, EA etc then proceeded to once again put minimal effort in their WiiU iterations of their series which predictably led to lower sales. When you go ahead and tell gamers that a specific system is not getting things like DLC, constant online maintenance, and ship games 6-8 months later than the versions on the other systems you aren't going to sell said games at a solid clip.

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Agree. And this is a HUGE problem going forward, because now we are in a Chicken or the egg situation here: Wii U owners aren't going to buy most first party games because they are often broken, lack features, and are late. And the ones that do make it on time are often just not making use of the system. 3rd Party developers aren't going to invest if people aren't going to buy.

Nintendo's relationship to 3rd Party companies right now is best highlighted with Ubisoft and both the Rayman Legends and Watchdog fiascos. Just awful on all accounts.