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Here are my thoughts.

WiiU sales will improve with a lower price point and more games. I will be seen as a better value than either Sony or Microsoft's new consoles --$160 to $260 cheaper to actually be ready to play a game.

The XB1 and PS4 are similarly architectured PC like devices. They will eventually find themselves competing with gamers against PCs.

Nintendo's biggest sellers come early next year --Brawl and Kart. People forget how many copies of Mario Kart Wii sold. And relatively few of those were bundled. If those don't move systems, nothing will.

No system will ever sell like the Wii did. GameStop predicted a smaller generation even before the WiiU's slow launch.

The only third party which has pulled away from the WiiU entirely is EA. And there is reason to think it had more to do with Origin than with slow sales.

Nothing is guaranteeing strong, continual sales for the XB1 and PS4. The arguments that people make regarding the different world facing the WiiU -- from competion from other places to global economic challenges-- also hold true for other consoles, and they are move expensive.

A major manufacturing snafu by Sony or Microsoft (akin to the RROD) could spell disaster since those two machines are so similar.

Game stores will push the new machines because managers have been bribed with consoles and games. Nintnedo does not do that.

Nintnedo needs to do more advertising -- not just on Nick and Cartoon Network.

Systems that were essentially DoA are ones that never sold. Things like the Jaguar or the Virual Boy. The WiiU has already outsold th Colecovision lifetime.



      


I am Mario.


I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble.

Wii Friend Code: 1624 6601 1126 1492

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