{"id":69534,"date":"2018-12-17T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/random_new_york_times_crossword_puzzle_forgets_that_the_wii_u_was_a_thing"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:15:00","slug":"random-new-york-times-crossword-puzzle-forgets-that-the-wii-u-was-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/random-new-york-times-crossword-puzzle-forgets-that-the-wii-u-was-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: New York Times Crossword Puzzle Forgets That The Wii U Was A Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ad384254af6e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ad384254af6e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"&quot;hold me&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ad384254af6e\/hold-me.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ad384254af6e\/hold-me.900x.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;hold me&quot;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Before this slightly baffling era where twenty to thirty new games appear every single week on the ever-blooming Switch, Nintendo&#8217;s home console operations revolved around none other than the Wii U. A console let down by a lack of third-party support and unclear marketing, and ultimately not generating nearly enough sales, the Wii U has &#8211; still undeservedly in our eyes &#8211; been quickly forgotten about in the gaming world.<\/p>\n<p>As if to perfectly prove that point, a recent crossword available via The New York Times entirely ignored the poor Wii U when it should have been thrust back into the spotlight. Shared by Reddit user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/nintendo\/comments\/a6rnyf\/even_the_new_york_times_crossword_forgets_about\/\">UhhMaybeThisWillWork<\/a>, the crossword asks for the &#8220;predecessor of Nintendo Switch&#8221;, allowing users to input just three letters for the answer. That&#8217;s right, even the New York Times is ignoring the Wii U&#8217;s existence, skipping that generation entirely and believing the Wii to have been Nintendo&#8217;s most recent console.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/80f97cf9a1b99\/reddit.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/80f97cf9a1b99\/reddit.original.png\" alt=\"Reddit\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While we&#8217;re only having a bit of fun here, the situation does highlight just how poorly the Wii U was understood or known about among consumers. The person or team behind the creation of this crossword puzzle clearly didn&#8217;t realise the product existed, presumably after a quick bit of research to double check their answers, too. We&#8217;ll always stand by our belief that the Wii U had a cracking first-party lineup of games in the end, but it clearly wasn&#8217;t appreciated by many.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any fond memories of the Wii U era? Shall we start a &#8216;positive Wii U thoughts&#8217; thread in the comment section to make the poor thing feel better? Feel free to join in below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before this slightly baffling era where twenty to thirty new games appear every single week on the ever-blooming Switch, Nintendo&#8217;s home console operations revolved around none other than the Wii U. A console let down by a lack of third-party support and unclear marketing, and ultimately not generating nearly enough sales, the Wii U has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}