Nintendo has announced that it’s finally ending support for the final iteration of a much beloved console, and fans are getting a little misty-eyed following the official statement.

It’s easy to forget these days, considering what a resounding success both the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2 have been, but the 2010s were a bit of an awkward decade for Nintendo.

Hot off the back of the success of the Nintendo Wii in 2006 and the Nintendo DS in 2004, Nintendo opted to release the Wii U in 2012… and it was a financial bomb.

As reported by Nintendo back in 2019, the Wii U’s lifetime sales totalled roughly 13 million– a paltry sum when compared to the Nintendo Wii’s 101 million in sales.

Luckily for Nintendo, the failure of the Wii U was offset by the success of the other console

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