The Wii U is Not a Failure

18th September, 0 replies

In the wake of the naming of Tatsumi Kimishima as the new president of Nintendo, headlines were run on multiple websites (including our own) reporting that he knew the Wii U would fail. Though the idea of the Wii U being a failure is not new to me, this most recent story, coupled with an existential discussion I had with my brother the following day of what qualifies as 'success' in life, led me to conclude that calling the Wii U a failure is a mistake.

I’m not a big fan of participation trophies for my kids; in the same way, I’m not trying to sugar coat the fact that the Wii U is in last place in this generation of consoles (though I often debate where the Wii U and upcoming NX truly belong in terms of console generations). The Wii U is, and is seemingly destined to remain, the loser of this generation. So calling it a loser, although a jerk move, is totally appropriate. And technically, depending on which definition of failure you are attempting to invoke, it could fairly be called a failure.

Nowadays, though, the word failure seems to carry a connotation of not just a lack of success, but a complete lack of success. I’m not much of a “black and white” kind of guy; I tend to see things as many shades of gray. Life is complicated, but all too often oversimplified classifications of the components of life downplay the beautiful complexity of our existence. It is in that sense that I take issue with calling the Wii U a failure...

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