Since Nintendo launched the Wii U, back in the year 2012, the console has sold around 13.630.000 units around the world. A figure very lower if it compared to the of his revolutionary predecessor, the Wii, with some 101.180.000 units sold. The life of Wii U has been an of cables and breathing assisted. And with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo will disconnect the patient from their game-developing.
When is presented at the E3 of 2011, in the air seemed to travel the word “recycling“. Despite them attempts of transmit a feeling different with it put in scene and the multiple explanations on its name (we and you), probably or it own Nintendo felt confidence with its new product. A product whose novelty was centered in a remote control that allowed us to keep playing if someone we missed the television to see Real Madrid-FC Barcelona.
With a few technical specifications very similar to the consoles that had been already 6 years in operation (PS3 and XBOX 360), a design and logo recycled with the skill of rounding (a “U” and a few curves in the console) and a catalogue of games that shone by its absence, the Wii U was launched with a catapult in the era of space rockets.
However, not everything is negative in the history of Wii U. Títulos as Mario Kart 8 or Super Smash Bros Wii U have served to give power to the machine’s artificial respiration that been used during these 4-5 years of life (more than one will have burned the console, especially with the second).
But what more important is that Nintendo has learned. Mistake or not, has been an experience that has served as alpha and beta of a console revolutionary? that is to a couple of months of having a launch of the large: Nintendo Switch. Today same, with them preorders of the console sold out in many stores, some media have risky that, of here to 2020, the new hardware of Nintendo sold 40,000,000 of units. Two times and average more than Wii U in all your life.
And the question is… With a console so promising as Nintendo Switch to it turned of the corner, what will happen with Wii U?
As all seems to indicate that will have a funeral gradual and silent although, that Yes, with all those honors: Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be the last game that develop for Wii U.
If you have a Wii U and are angry, awaits. Who knows if you can deliver your Wii U and receive a Nintendo Switch to price lowered. And if not, always you is the depreciation that you’ve given during these years.
Who can be quiet are the holders of consoles portable Nintendo 3DS and 2DS. The company Japanese will continue to betting by these devices and has left clear that Nintendo Switch not is a product replacement of your printer of banknotes portable to screen double. New titles will continue confirming is for your handheld and, without go more away, this same week is announced the next arrival of Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of courage.
And in addition is something that comes to sense by itself same. The gameplay of screen double is what marks the difference in these small machines of fun, and that not is something that can offer us Nintendo Switch (of time).
What is sure is that Wii U begins to enter in the pages of the history of Nintendo.
