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Soundwave on 19 January 2016
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Thunderbird77 said:
Wyrdness said:

 


Except they happily cut the price of the 3DS when problems arose, ask yourself this what other Nintendo platform 4 years in didn't recieve a price cut keeping in mind on average a gen has been 5 years? GC was less then half the price of the U and received one, fact is they accepted the U was a lost cause back when Iwata in February 2014 first hinted at the NX, the GC was at least neck and neck with the Xbox but U will never be in that position and was left behind fast.

The lack of a price cut is just them recouping as much back from each sale before the next platform.

They didn't happily cost the 3ds price and the 3ds was sold at a big profit margin at $250. They went from big profit at $250 to small loss at $170. The Wii U was already sold at a loss at launch, they couldn't make such a drastic cut early on without hemorraging money.

 

Wii U is outdated tech. Even the $199.99 Nvidia Shield console is more powerful with more RAM to boot. 

They don't want to  cut the price because as you said it's not worth it ... the system is a failure and will be a failure no matter what they do. So they're just letting it die. 

It may get a Pikmin 4 (something quickly slapped together using the Pikmin 3 assets) and some more outsourced projects (a Mario Sunshine HD might be nice) but that's about it.