![]() The headline number of 3.45 million units sold worldwide isn't the killer fact, but the split behind it: 3.06 million of those came in the first month. Nintendo's figures for the Wii U's first months on sale, from November through to March, are terrible. With Wii U and its gamepad, there's more than a whiff of cheddar cheese. Such thinking led to the brilliance of the Wii remote, and a sales phenomenon. Originality had to be matched to simplicity and desirability. It demonstrated that innovation is not just about new experiences, but their form factor. Nevertheless cheddar cheese was an important stepping-stone for Nintendo. Cheddar cheese was simple enough to use, and accurate, but it looked weird - and Nintendo's developers thought it unsuited to the company's own software. ![]() It was made out of orange plastic, so Nintendo's hardware team nicknamed it the cheddar cheese. An early prototype for the Wii's controller was an accelerometer-equipped disc you gripped in both hands, with a huge star-shaped button in the middle surrounded by smaller buttons. ![]()
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