


U Deluxe” (yes, these are real game titles) has sold 10.4 million, more than the lifetime sales for the two Wii U games it combinesīetween the lines: Nintendo is proving there's a second chance when a game is basically new to most people. You would probably need to be a developer and be able to rerelease the game for Wii u somehow while making a lot of modifications for this to be remotely possible. The Switch’s best-selling game, “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe,” is also a Wii U carry-over: 35.4 million copies of the Switch edition vs. From Mario Kart to Captain Toad, the Switch is now home to a sizeable Wii U Catalogue In Exile, with an increasing number of Nintendo-published titles having made the jump. o Nintendo 64: Beetle Adventure Racing () Excitebike 64 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.1. The Wii u only has 1/4 of the memory in the switch for games, as well as being powered by completely different CPUs with completely different architectures. Nintendo has brought 10 major Wii U franchise releases to the Switch, each with minor modifications at best. The Switch's lifetime sales are now over 84.6 million, closing in on the Wii's 101.6 million. Or maybe the Wii U was just a half-step to 2017's Switch, which expanded the idea of taking TV-based games on the go, without the Wii U's limitation of needing to be plugged into a power outlet.

Its big innovation: a home console with a controller that contained a screen, allowing players to keep playing their games using that screen when others needed the TV.īut people didn't care and it was discontinued by early 2017. The 2012 successor to the popular Wii (remember swinging that controller?) bombed, with just 13.6 million units sold lifetime. The big picture: The Wii U was a disaster even by Nintendo’s usual cycles of occasional struggle and phenomenal fortunes.
