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Does Wii U have a marketing problem?

Yes 246 78.59%
 
Maybe 36 11.50%
 
No 30 9.58%
 
Total:312
S.T.A.G.E. on 01 May 2013
SOLIDSNAKE08 said:

people need to switch their wii's on first. mine has been on standby since 2009!


This is exactly what I've been saying. The Wii had such little utility that by now the majority of the Wii's have to have been off.



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AbbathTheGrim on 01 May 2013
chapset said:
Most wii owners don't know how to check up their messages so this is pointless, they should make a firmware update with a game introducing the wii U when you log into your wii

Or maybe they should make another WiiSports for the Wii and after half playthrough the game freezes and a disclaimer appears saying:

"If you want to play the other half, buy the WiiU version"



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

adriane23 on 01 May 2013

They really should've just called it the Wii 2. My coworker has a Wii (and still uses it), but didn't even know the Wii U existed until I told him a few months ago. Did Nintendo hire SONY's marketing department?



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sth88 on 01 May 2013

The fact that, almost two years after announcing the Wii U (and 5 1/2 months after releasing it), the general public still doesn't understand that it's a new console, is unbelievable. Nintendo's marketing is scrambling to make up for lost ground, and they've squandered one of their biggest advantages: going first in the next console generation.



ironmanDX on 01 May 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Being that the the Wii was purchased primarily by non-gamers, I doubt 85% of the owners even will see that message because the console isnt even plugged into the internet.


%85... You're kidding right?

Casuals know how to use Wi-Fi on their phones, how would the Wii be a problem? It wouldn't.

I agree with you but %85 is to damn high!!



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chapset on 01 May 2013
AbbathTheGrim said:
chapset said:
Most wii owners don't know how to check up their messages so this is pointless, they should make a firmware update with a game introducing the wii U when you log into your wii

Or maybe they should make another WiiSports for the Wii and after half playthrough the game freezes and a disclaimer appears saying:

"If you want to play the other half, buy the WiiU version"

brilliant, revolutionary, ground breaking this is what the fans will say when they release such game



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Sensei on 01 May 2013
BenVTrigger said:

Continuing a recent exercise in the company finally realising "holy shit we really should have called this thing something else", Nintendo's message spells out as explicitly as it can that the Wii U is "an entirely new system". Not a re-release of the Wii, not an add-on, not a variant, an entirely new system. OK?


I LOL'd at this part.

Anyway, probably a good initiative. Throwing some extra info towards they consumers can't hurt.



shakarak on 01 May 2013

Free Marketing for Nintendo.



AbbathTheGrim on 01 May 2013
chapset said:
AbbathTheGrim said:
chapset said:
Most wii owners don't know how to check up their messages so this is pointless, they should make a firmware update with a game introducing the wii U when you log into your wii

Or maybe they should make another WiiSports for the Wii and after half playthrough the game freezes and a disclaimer appears saying:

"If you want to play the other half, buy the WiiU version"

brilliant, revolutionary, ground breaking this is what the fans will say when they release such game

Yeah, and they will riot... they will riot at the entrance of stores fighting for a new WiiU.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

scottie on 01 May 2013
BenVTrigger said:
scottie said:


Spin bad news on Nintendo? In all honesty this may be the first ever "negative" Nintendo thread Ive ever made.  in 5 years. Most of my Nintendo threads are me raving about how awesome the 3DS is


Edit: Thank you.

 

Anyway, this might be a good way to encourage some additional sales, but I think they should have saved it for November - this might be enough to convince Wii owners to look into a WiiU, but there's no point doing that unless you can offer them enough compelling games they can't get on the Wii.