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> reviving the console (and its sales). Wii U production ended entirely more than 7 years ago - there's no more stock to sell. It's a legacy platform in every

> reviving the console (and its sales). Wii U production ended entirely more than 7 years ago - there's no more stock to sell. It's a legacy platform in every sense of the word.

randunel 2y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Sales > By December 2019, Nintendo reported life-time sales of 13.56 million Wii U console units and by September 2022 103.53 million software units worldwide and > Despite this, the console had third party releases until 2020. So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? Production stopped, eventually hardware sales stopped, too, but software sales for the locked in hardware did not until recently.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  >> Despite this, the console had third party releases until 2020. > So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? I tend to imagine that every third-party release for the Wii U in 2020 was built for the Switch and made available on the Wii U as a low-cost port. There were no vendors and no Wii U owners at that time who weren't well aware that the platform had died years ago.
  - godzillabrennus 2y ago
    Even Scott the Woz knew enough to make videos about its death by then…
    - beeboobaa3 2y ago
      You think every parent who buys a console for their 8 years kid watches whoever Scott the Woz is?
      - philistine 2y ago
        Well, you call those parents who don't watch Scott bad parents.
- LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
  > So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? What? Wii U software still works fine - you can even still download digital purchases from the eShop if you already own them. The component that was turned off yesterday was the servers used for multiplayer games, which isn’t an unusual thing to see occur this late into a console’s lifespan. Pretendo are doing good work! Even if most of the worthwhile parts of the console’s library have since been ported to other systems, it’s still nice that some parts of the original experience are going to be preserved.
  - beeboobaa3 2y ago
    If you bought the game for the multiplayer then it does not in fact work fine.
- Shawnj2 2y ago
  Nintendo clearly stopped caring about the Wii U other than as a source of free money from the eshop as soon as the switch released. They did do some stuff with the 3DS for a bit after the switch launched but not a ton of
- kristofferR 2y ago
  Did you read the comment chain you are replying to? Your comment makes no sense at all in that context, that the bug was introduced to revive console sales.

> reviving the console (and its sales). Wii U production ended entirely more than 7 years ago - there's no more stock to sell. It's a legacy platform in every sense of the word.

randunel 2y ago

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Sales > By December 2019, Nintendo reported life-time sales of 13.56 million Wii U console units and by September 2022 103.53 million software units worldwide and > Despite this, the console had third party releases until 2020. So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? Production stopped, eventually hardware sales stopped, too, but software sales for the locked in hardware did not until recently.

thaumasiotes 2y ago
>> Despite this, the console had third party releases until 2020. > So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? I tend to imagine that every third-party release for the Wii U in 2020 was built for the Switch and made available on the Wii U as a low-cost port. There were no vendors and no Wii U owners at that time who weren't well aware that the platform had died years ago.
- godzillabrennus 2y ago
  Even Scott the Woz knew enough to make videos about its death by then…
  - beeboobaa3 2y ago
    You think every parent who buys a console for their 8 years kid watches whoever Scott the Woz is?
    - philistine 2y ago
      Well, you call those parents who don't watch Scott bad parents.
LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? What? Wii U software still works fine - you can even still download digital purchases from the eShop if you already own them. The component that was turned off yesterday was the servers used for multiplayer games, which isn’t an unusual thing to see occur this late into a console’s lifespan. Pretendo are doing good work! Even if most of the worthwhile parts of the console’s library have since been ported to other systems, it’s still nice that some parts of the original experience are going to be preserved.
- beeboobaa3 2y ago
  If you bought the game for the multiplayer then it does not in fact work fine.
Shawnj2 2y ago
Nintendo clearly stopped caring about the Wii U other than as a source of free money from the eshop as soon as the switch released. They did do some stuff with the 3DS for a bit after the switch launched but not a ton of
kristofferR 2y ago
Did you read the comment chain you are replying to? Your comment makes no sense at all in that context, that the bug was introduced to revive console sales.