Both also had a massive own-goal branding problem, in that nobody who wasn't a gaming nerd could figure out they were totally new consoles, not new editions of

Both also had a massive own-goal branding problem, in that nobody who wasn't a gaming nerd could figure out they were totally new consoles, not new editions of an existing one, from the name. The 3DS had it even worse than the Wii U, since the DS line had several versions with very-similar names some of which were variants of existing ones, and a couple of which were actually totally new platforms (was it the DSi that was the other one? I can't even fully remember and I'm way farther down the console-nerd path than the vast majority of people) At least they just put a number after this one, so folks will get it this time.