Wii U

Nintendo Wii U · 2012–2017

Nintendo's commercial low point and, for exactly that reason, one of the more interesting modern collecting platforms. The Wii U sold barely 13 million units against the Wii's hundred-plus million, which meant small print runs across its library, and many of its best exclusives were later ported to the runaway-success Switch — leaving the original Wii U release as the scarcer, increasingly sought version. The collecting logic is unusual: a recent platform whose failure, not its success, created scarcity, where late low-print titles and the now-orphaned exclusives anchor a market that has been quietly climbing as the platform recedes.