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Nintendo Ending Wii U Production Later This Year, Says Report (polygon.com)
An anonymous reader cites a Polygon article: Nintendo will end production on its Wii U console sometime in 2016. The console, which has sold poorly compared to its wildly successful predecessor, debuted in 2012. According to Nikkei's report, Nintendo has already stopped manufacturing certain Wii U accessories. The outlet, which has a good record of reporting on Nintendo's unannounced plans, reports that while Wii U hardware is being discontinued, a launch of the company's next platform -- codenamed NX -- is not guaranteed this year. Nintendo plans to unveil its next-generation console sometime in 2016. The company launched its first mobile app, Miitomo, last week.
...Oh well, I hope Netflix will keep supporting it, because (and I have ALL the other consoles + pc) it is the BEST, smoothest Netflix experience you'll ever have.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
I think we found the problem....
Good-bye
the huge Wii U LCD/controller seemed like a solution in search of a problem to me.
Did you see the announcement video for it? The President of Nintendo talked about how their goal with the successor of the Wii was to get all of the members of the family interacting with each other, instead of everyone living in their own little bubble (ie, staring at the small screen in their hand). What amazed me by that, is that Nintendo solved that problem with the Wii. Some of the best times on the Wii is spent with four people all holding one cheap controller, looking at the same spot, or at each other as they perform silly actions to accomplish the games task. Then when they introduced the Wii U GamePad, they all of a sudden made one person to be different than the others, and in their own little bubble. They already had the solution to the problem they claimed they were trying to solve, and then ran backwards.