Counter To All The Negative Wii U Threads In 1 Place

[STRYKIE]

Purple said:

STRYKIE said:
Well considering how cluttered this thread got, I guess I'll summarize with two notes:

1) I wouldn't say the GC had terrible 1st party support, but I think we can tell that Nintendo was banking on Rare to fill in the blanks a little too hard during the development of their own projects, as they did with the N64.

2) Y'know, personally, I'm pissed that Microsoft cut and ran with the original Xbox prematurely, but hey, I'm not almost 80 million Xbox 360's sold either.

This is a really great point. Say they dropped support now with no warning or compensation you're going to lose at most 4 million consumers(probably much less, people like myself will continue to support Nintendo and others will be satisfied with the value already gotten out of the system.)

If you continue to support the Wii U you're losing the 96 million people who bought a Wii and millions of other potention customers who don't consider the Wii U a worthwhile system. On top of that you're going years with minimal major third party business relationships and the longer it goes on the more irrecoverable it becomes.

Granted, I don't think it's a necessary step as long as Nintendo has the 3DS to fall back on, however, on the other hand, I'm worried that Wii U is becoming the tipping point in making 3rd party relations irrecoverable. But that's exactly why Sega shouldn't be the only one being analogized in this situation. They didn't have the handheld parachute, in fact, they were an absolute clusterfuck of hardware over a period of 6 years.