Nintendo lärde sig två viktiga läxor av Wii U

Wii U sålde totalt 13 miljoner enheter under sin livstid och det är siffror Switch väntas slå på ett och ett halvt år. Kort sagt, där Wii U floppade rejält - är Switch istället superpopulär. Men hur lyckades Nintendo vända skutan, vilken mirakelmedicin använde de?

Detta försöker Business Insider besvara genom att snacka om läxorna företaget lärde sig av Wii U med Bill Trinen, Nintendo of America's senior product marketing manager samt Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of sales and marketing. Det visar sig att det var i huvudsak två grejer man tog till sig, där det ena är segheten i uppstarten av Wii U. Trinen säger:

"If you look at the Wii U hardware system, just the system menu itself - the time that it took to boot that system up, to get into gameplay - was something that was a frustration for a lot of players early on and actually became a hindrance.

With Switch being something that you can take with you, it made it really important that you could play it instantly. That to me is an example of a direct lesson from the Wii U era, where Nintendo said, 'That's something we're gonna zero in on and make a dramatic improvement on'."

Switch är, som du säkert vet, nästan löjligt snabb och Bowser fyller i:

"It's three button clicks, and you're into the fun, so it's a really accessible menu."

Ett annat problem man tvingades ta itu med var spelbristen. Det kom helt enkelt inte särskilt mycket spel till Wii U. Bowser berättar:

"We had a glut [of game releases] up front, and then kind of went dry for quite some time. From a first-party perspective, at least, we were very intentional and deliberate about Switch. We launched with 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,' which obviously was incredibly successful, drove hardware, and brought a bunch of new people into the franchise. And then followed that with 'Mario Kart,' straight through the series of games we've released since then.

That's been a really important lesson that we've applied that seems to have worked."

Tycker du att Nintendo gjort ett bättre jobb med Switch än Wii U?