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M.U.G.E.N on 30 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Been reading a lot of people who bought multiples to resell in ebay etc not being successful. Some users actually sold their units at a loss (small loss mind you..like $3 bucks iirc)

This could be either lack of demand or ninty doing a much better job from the supply side of things than with Wii. Or could be a mix of both as I have heard some areas being sold out while others aren't. Too early to call it either way

ps: I saw this pic earlier today of a lady with around 6-8 wiiu units in the back of her van...which she bought to resell....she is gonna have some trouble



I just returned mine to the store today because I got no replies whatso ever to my post and on top of that my store is stocked so anyone who wants one can just go get one at the store.


wait what post are you referring to?



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Max King of the Wild on 30 November 2012
M.U.G.E.N said:
Max King of the Wild said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Been reading a lot of people who bought multiples to resell in ebay etc not being successful. Some users actually sold their units at a loss (small loss mind you..like $3 bucks iirc)

This could be either lack of demand or ninty doing a much better job from the supply side of things than with Wii. Or could be a mix of both as I have heard some areas being sold out while others aren't. Too early to call it either way

ps: I saw this pic earlier today of a lady with around 6-8 wiiu units in the back of her van...which she bought to resell....she is gonna have some trouble



I just returned mine to the store today because I got no replies whatso ever to my post and on top of that my store is stocked so anyone who wants one can just go get one at the store.


wait what post are you referring to?


http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/vgm/3440812316.html



noname2200 on 30 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:


I just returned mine to the store today because I got no replies whatso ever to my post and on top of that my store is stocked so anyone who wants one can just go get one at the store.

Our hearts all go out to you for your...loss.



Max King of the Wild on 30 November 2012
noname2200 said:
Max King of the Wild said:


I just returned mine to the store today because I got no replies whatso ever to my post and on top of that my store is stocked so anyone who wants one can just go get one at the store.

Our hearts all go out to you for your...loss.



Since I work there I got a discount while buying it... for some reason when you return items the discount isn't tracked. So the 32gb was 316 total for me. I ended up getting like 370 i think back. I did the same thing with the ps move. Except in that case I bought it and like a couple weeks after a coupon printed up at the register for it. My manager told me to return the move and rebuy it. So I got the move for like 30 dollars



noname2200 on 30 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:



Since I work there I got a discount while buying it... for some reason when you return items the discount isn't tracked. So the 32gb was 316 total for me. I ended up getting like 370 i think back.

Alright, now that is pretty funny.



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HappySqurriel on 30 November 2012
SaviorX said:
pokoko said:
Here is a question for those with a Wii U: is Nintendo Land going to blow up big? Wii Sports pretty much made the Wii when it went viral with the casual crowd. Seriously, I can't tell you how many non-gaming adults I had come into work and tell me about this crazy new game that told you if you were over-weight and it let you play tennis and how they went out and bought one the next day. Does anything with the Wii U have that kind of potential?

I hear Nintendo Land is a lot of fun but fun doesn't always translate to casual interest.

Nintendo Land won't take off like Wii Sports did. There some things fundamentally different that will not allow it to sell as much.

The first thing is simply, the name. Nintendo Land.

Wii Sports defined the Wii console. Nintendo Land defines Nintendo the company, not the Wii U itself. It is like Smash Bros. in terms of combining the world of Nintendo into one game, but it does not have instant identification of Wii Sports.  If I were to ask the question "What is Wii Sports", a person will say a Wii game where you can play tennis and golf etc. BAM, Quick understanding of concept.

 

Can you do that for Nintendo Land? No.

 

Wii U will stay in stock and will never be sold out again once we hit next Spring. Isn't it crazy how we all acknowledge that Wii U cannot surpass the Wii in hardware sales? Why are we all so accepting of this FACT? Shouldn't we all expect Nintendo to create the games necessary to make Wii U sell 125 million units? Just something to think about. Either way, I hope that in the very likely case that Nintendo does once again make giant mistakes and release games we don't necessarily want, they will then grit their teeth and make the titles that will sell those consoles and get EVERYONE, not just gamefreaks, excited about video games.


Honestly, I think the Wii U can pass the Wii but that requires some significant mistakes by Sony and Microsoft ...

It sounds odd but I think of the Wii U as (sort of) being in a position similar to what the Wii would have been in had they released in 2005 (and not been penalized for releasing too early), and the XBox 360 launched in 2006; with everything else about the systems' first 2 years on the market remaining essentially the same. The net result is a market where the Wii would have had 16+ million more units sold, and the XBox 360 would have had 8+ million fewer units sold, when decisions were being made about which platform games were going to be made on; and that 24+ Million unit swing would have had a huge impact on game development in for games released in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

It all comes down to whether Sony and Microsoft "screw up", and I've seen enough recent mistakes from both companies to think that there is a high likelihood of that. With Microsoft, I have to say I like many of the concepts of Windows 8 and the Surface but both are garbage when you actually use them; and on Sony, the PS-Vita is probably the biggest mistake in handheld gaming since the N-Gage.



M.U.G.E.N on 30 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Max King of the Wild said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Been reading a lot of people who bought multiples to resell in ebay etc not being successful. Some users actually sold their units at a loss (small loss mind you..like $3 bucks iirc)

This could be either lack of demand or ninty doing a much better job from the supply side of things than with Wii. Or could be a mix of both as I have heard some areas being sold out while others aren't. Too early to call it either way

ps: I saw this pic earlier today of a lady with around 6-8 wiiu units in the back of her van...which she bought to resell....she is gonna have some trouble



I just returned mine to the store today because I got no replies whatso ever to my post and on top of that my store is stocked so anyone who wants one can just go get one at the store.


wait what post are you referring to?


http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/vgm/3440812316.html

oh ok gotcha..for w/e reason I was thinking of a forum post so I was confused..doh

and well at least you got a good deal out of it cuz of the discount :D 

btw have you seen this

http://slickdeals.net/f/5189788-The-Official-Nintendo-Wii-U-Availability-Thread-And-Game-Deals?&page=240

some of the posts are funny



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Max King of the Wild on 30 November 2012
noname2200 said:
Max King of the Wild said:



Since I work there I got a discount while buying it... for some reason when you return items the discount isn't tracked. So the 32gb was 316 total for me. I ended up getting like 370 i think back.

Alright, now that is pretty funny.

Yeah, it's rather short sighted of Target.

Did you mean my loss as in of the Wii U? If so, I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it. Maybe in 2 years after I graduate but right now I'm ridiculously busy. I have 14 credit hours this semester but over winter break I'm taking a 3 credit hour class in 3 weeks and immediatly afterwards I'm taking 18 credit hours. I have no time for games anymore



Max King of the Wild on 30 November 2012
M.U.G.E.N said:



 

 

 

 

oh ok gotcha..for w/e reason I was thinking of a forum post so I was confused..doh

and well at least you got a good deal out of it cuz of the discount :D 

btw have you seen this

http://slickdeals.net/f/5189788-The-Official-Nintendo-Wii-U-Availability-Thread-And-Game-Deals?&page=240

some of the posts are funny


Thats actually really funny lol.



noname2200 on 30 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:

Did you mean my loss as in of the Wii U? If so, I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it. Maybe in 2 years after I graduate but right now I'm ridiculously busy. I have 14 credit hours this semester but over winter break I'm taking a 3 credit hour class in 3 weeks and immediatly afterwards I'm taking 18 credit hours. I have no time for games anymore

No, I meant as in scalping. Unless I'm confusing you with someone else: I know someone here bought five systems just to flip them. If it wasn't you, sorry!

HappySqurriel said:

It sounds odd but I think of the Wii U as (sort of) being in a position similar to what the Wii would have been in had they released in 2005 (and not been penalized for releasing too early), and the XBox 360 launched in 2006; with everything else about the systems' first 2 years on the market remaining essentially the same. The net result is a market where the Wii would have had 16+ million more units sold, and the XBox 360 would have had 8+ million fewer units sold, when decisions were being made about which platform games were going to be made on; and that 24+ Million unit swing would have had a huge impact on game development in for games released in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The counter-example to this idea though is the Dreamcast. It was out long before the PS2 released, and built up a respectable userbase before any of its rival systems released, yet developers largely shunned it because they "knew" that the PS2 was going to be the better system to develop for. It was basically a self-fulfilling prophecy, and I submit that that mindset remains true today.

Perhaps the Wii's spectacular early success may have convinced some third parties to take development for it more seriously, but in light of the fact that development for modern games takes two+ years of lead time (more when developing a new engine...as required by the HD consoles) I would argue that the majority of third-parties still would have devoted their resources to HD development instead of making high-quality Wii titles, as they "knew" that the HD consoles were the future. By the time they realized how wrong they were (and many of them lack the willingness to ever do so), it would have been too late; the bed would be made, and the consoles' identities would have been established. The fact that third-parties never amounted to much on the Wii, notwithstanding unprecedented hardware sales, is pretty strong evidence of that.

 

Relating all this back to the Wii U, I'm not convinced that its strength, if any, comes from its early release. Rather, it should logically be the cost of development: if Epic is right, and the PS4/720 "only" double development costs, the entry price will till be too high for a lot of third-parties, and even those that can afford to buy-in will only do so with the safest of titles. While I still believe that a smart and aggressive Nintendo could have carried the prior generation on its own, I've come around to the idea that they don't want to do so, and that no other developer seems capable of carrying a system single-handedly. So third-parties' behavior is going to play a large role in determining whether the Wii U floats or sinks.

At the moment, I choose "sink."