After this, came a showreel of gaming moments, then nothing. Reggie-Fils-Aimé, head of Nintendo America, gave an obtuse introduction and showed the unique GamePad controller, with its built-in display. Then, there it was at the Nintendo press conference, in front of the whole games industry. The E3 presentation was supposed to be the big reveal. Before that, Nintendo had made vague references to Project Cafe, a new piece of hardware deep in development at the company’s famed R&D labs, but the nature of the device was unclear. What happened? How did Nintendo, one of the oldest and most respected companies in the video game industry, get it so wrong? And did anything good come out of the Wii U era? How will the machine be remembered, if at all?Ĭertainly, some believe the console was cursed from the start – right from the first announcement at the 2011 E3 video game conference in Los Angeles. The follow-up machine to the hugely successful Wii had sold fewer than 15m units worldwide since its launch in 2012. I n late January it was announced that Nintendo had ceased production of the Wii U console.
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