Reggie admits Nintendo didn’t have enough games ready for the Wii U launch

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted to IGN that Nintendo failed to prepare enough games for the launch of its latest console and as a result, didn’t have enough momentum. He stated that he believed games like Zelda: Wind Waker HD, Super Mario 3D World and Pikmin 3 should have been available at or just after launch. However, that didn’t happen, as TWW HD didn’t launch until September 2013, 3D World didn’t launch until November and Pikmin 3 until August last year.

“What I would say is that we have been slower than we wanted to be in bringing the key games into the marketplace that leveraged the full functionality of the system.”

“Just look at the games that we launched over the last nine months. Everything from Super Mario 3D World to Wii Fit U. Let’s include Pikmin 3 in that group. Let’s include Zelda [Wind Waker] in that group. These are all games that we wanted to launch earlier in the system’s life. And because they have not launched early, we have not been able to create the momentum that we wanted.”