Iwata: We Can Fix Wii U’s Complete Lack of Relevance by Releasing a Mii Smartphone App

Ross Everman writes for Fully 'Avin It: Speaking at a conference held from the mental asylum where he lives these days, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata has reaffirmed his belief that WiiU can be a successful console. His plan: take one of the features that nobody cares about and make a smartphone app for it.

***SATIRE***

[vishmarx]

most people dont even know what a mii is.
how do you fix that first?

[XTGN]

Disguise it as a banana and offer it a solution.

[Baka-akaB]

in some other cases the problem isnt knowing what a mii is ... but having actually a use for it or interest in it .

Some like me always found it and certainly dont care about using something so ugly and useless in other games to represent myself .

Sale goes for the defunct home avatar , or Xbox ones

[subtenko]

for a second I was like "What IS a Mii?" Then I remembered its the little character thing.

[Magicite]

At least they acknowledge ''Wii U’s Complete Lack of Relevance''.

[3-4-5]

Some site I've never heard of is talking about the Wii U's relevance ?

* It's One of Three Big consoles on the market.

This person's website is One of Billions.

And they have the nerve to say Wii U isn't relevant...

LOL

All consoles are relevant. They all matter.

K.....lol just saw the satire...lol wow.

[Knushwood Butt]

Preach on brother Beavis

[AskYourMumGaming]

If this is satire, it's a good laugh.

[MrAnthonyDR]

The article is pretty much true - the quotes in that article are real and taken from the linked MCVUK piece. Fully 'Avin It just going farther than MCVUK in pointing out how stupid the idea is.

[rawrock]

They should have made a miiverse app three years ago...

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Nice troll article; The Wii U is far from irrelevant.

But I digress; I would rather see Nintendo focus on games rather than a Miiverse app, so I can't say I like this idea.

[strauser360]

How can they be irrelevant when they have street fighter 2010?

[MrAnthonyDR]

The problem is, Nintendo are immune from criticism.

We can mock Sony/Microsoft for bringing out sequel after sequel just fine. But imagine that Microsoft's gaming lineup was only: Halo 5, Halo Karting, Halo 2 HD remake, Gears 2 HD remake, a Halo brawler mini-game. This and no third party decent games. People would think they had gone mad.

Yet Nintendo do that EXACT thing but somehow they're cool??

[strauser360]

I'm just waiting for the next 3d mario, and mario3dland doesn't count.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

@ Anthony

http://a.disquscdn.com/uplo...

Sooooo original, that argument.

Also, if Nintendo were immune from criticism, then everyone would love them and they'd be ahead of Sony and Microsoft in sales AND reputation.
It's precisely BECAUSE there's criticism against them that they aren't.[even though a lot of it is unfair]

[eagle21]

@MrAnthony

Did you really just type Halo Karting? We know it would be inferior since they have no iconic characters outside Master Chief and the ones they threw away for Rare to make Kinect games. Meanwhile Mario Kart 8 won GOTY awards. Sad that trying to make Nintendo look bad but can't come up with a good 1:1 argument. Nintendo software is pure quality with distinctive iconic gameplay per title. Not just names on a store shelf....

[LOL_WUT]

Its satire chill out! I too wish they'd focus on games instead of amiibos or a miiverse app. As for them being irrelevant just look at how many 3rd party devs decide not to develop for the Wii U lets be honest here ;)

[Knushwood Butt]

If Wii U is so great, why do you spend more time on here trying to defend it than actually playing the thing?

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

I could say the same thing to all the trolls that spend more time in articles like this heckling Wii U and its fans rather than logging out and playing their PS4's and XBones.
There's fewer Nintendo trolls than any other type, on this site.

[iNFAMOUZ1]

*facepalm*

[joeydale13]

Oh Nintendo...

[eagle21]

NPD needs another "most played" survey. Only users who own a Wii U with at least one other current gen console can vote. I bet Wii U will be most played. Troll fanboy comments for a troll article really don't mean anything to relevance..

[SilentNegotiator]

But only a minority of 8th gen gamers even have a Wii U anyway; we already KNOW that they have different tastes to have bothered buying a Wii U at all.

Surveying a minority for their preference that makes them a minority in the first place is like a self fulfilling prophecy.

[johny5]

Gee, who would thought an App would make all the Wii U problems go away! Such genius idea, they should hire Mii...

It's like Kung pow predicting the Wii U, Genius! https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[BladerunnerZX]

The bubble that Nintendos head honchos live in will burst someday.
Nintendo needs new blood especially the upper management that is stuck in 1995 video game loop.

[superchiller]

An app for Miis to salvage the dying Wii U? Wow, what is Nintendo thinking? They're beyond desperate.

Miis are already an embarrassing part of Nintendo's ecosystem, just another example of how out of touch this company is with reality.

On a side note, the picture of Iwata holding the bananas is perfect for this article, lol.

[SilentNegotiator]

Restoring Wii U's relevancy? There's an app for that.

[TheCommentator]

Wouldn't that mean that at one time Wii U was relevant? When was that exactly? Yu can't restore what never was. It's like Gamecube and N64 all over again. Only for Nintendo fans.

[WizzroSupreme]

The Wii U's doing just fine by the people that want it. If you don't, than more power to the things you do love.

[benji101]

I bought a wii u. Saw that it was awesome for Nintendo published games, then looked at the other two saw they had very little but low end PC graphics so I bit the bullet and bought a good pc. XBOX and PS4 are for idiots who cant see they are just buying a cheap fake pc.

[Segata]

If this were a Sony troll article this site would have buried it.

[clouds5]

I love everything about the wii u. The design, the gamepad, the backwards compatibility, the UI and the games are simply amazing. Only problem: all the devs have completely given up on the system. You should definitely buy a wii u it's worth it. But buy it knowing that you will never get any big multi plat titles again. And that makes me kinda sad because it's such a cool system.
still it's the perfect addition to my gaming PC. PC + wii u = win.

[DoggyBiscuit]

Iwata you make me laugh sometimes

[MadMenX]

wiiu-seless is dead and wasting everyones time.

[benji101]

The wii u is the only games console of gen 8. The other 2 may as well just be apps for windows.
Sony and Microsoft should leave the console business PCs are the future of graphic heavy games.