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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii U "Price Cut" Will Have Little Effect! Also, Will You Buy One Now!? <(o_O<)

 

After the price cut, will you buy Wii U?

Heck yeah!!! 197 60.62%
 
Naw mawn... 128 39.38%
 
Total:325

I won't buy the Wii U even if they drop the price to $100. The Wii U is a great system and the upcoming games looks great, but I just don't have the time to play two consoles.



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The fact that the Deluxe model is by far the better seller shows that consumers see the extra value despite being more expensive. Phasing out the Basic and cutting the Deluxe by $50 is the right choice and is what Wii U should have been since launch. Also have a "casual" and "Nintendo core" bundle is a good idea.

The price cut alone wont make a huge difference, maybe a nice boost for a couple weeks and raising the baseline by a few thousand but a price cut along with a plethora of high quality titles that appeal to multiple demographics right in time for the holidays will increase sales.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

I'm kinda tired of the "it doesn't have games" stuff.

It's now getting a price cut and has gotten New Super Luigi U, Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Wonderful 101, and Zelda: Wind Waker HD (bundled no less) are just released or in the process of releasing in the next few days.

"The drought" thing isn't an excuse anymore IMO. There is plenty to play now when you add in Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Black Ops 2, LEGO City, Monster Hunter Tri G, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Assassin's Creed 3, Game & Wario, Zombi U, and Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed.

There's isn't a lack of content for anyone buying a Wii U from here on out, unless you can play like 10 games in one month's time before Sonic Lost Worlds and Batman: Arkham Origins comes out and then you have Watch Dogs, CoD Ghosts, and Mario 3D World in November.

The system needs to start showing real improvement now.



The price sounds good. But i feel like it will require Mario 3D to really take off and thats only coming out in December. Its too bad they couldnt have that and Mario Kart come out in november. Still, i think it will do enough to compete with the new consoles after the release.



sort of.
The real effects of the price drop will be seen on next year.
What will drive its sales this holiday are the exclusive software



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Soundwave said:

I'm kinda tired of the "it doesn't have games" stuff.

It's now getting a price cut and has gotten New Super Luigi U, Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Wonderful 101, and Zelda: Wind Waker HD (bundled no less) are just released or in the process of releasing in the next few days.

"The drought" thing isn't an excuse anymore IMO. There is plenty to play now when you add in Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Black Ops 2, LEGO City, Monster Hunter Tri G, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Assassin's Creed 3, Game & Wario, Zombi U, and Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed.

There's isn't a lack of content for anyone buying a Wii U from here on out, unless you can play like 10 games in one month's time before Sonic Lost Worlds and Batman: Arkham Origins comes out and then you have Watch Dogs, CoD Ghosts, and Mario 3D World in November.

The system needs to start showing real improvement now.

The only problem with ur lists are that a sizeable chunk of them are on other consoles with much larger install bases. Rayman, Splinter Cell, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, Sonic Racing are on PS360 which have sold over 150m so it only makes sense that those games dont push hardware. Monster Hunter is a 3 year old port thats also on 3DS, which has 10x the install base. Those are all great games to own if u already have a Wii U but there not going to make people go out a buy a Wii U if u already have a PS3/360/3DS.

U need to stop being so literal, of course people dont mean it has 0 games, they mean it lacks software that will make u go out a buy a new $300+ console. For the first 8 months the only titles that could possibly fit that title for most were Nintendo Land & NSMBU. Pikmin, Lego City, Game & Wario are nice little support titles that can push hardware for a couple weeks but arent from huge selling mainstream series. This holiday has 3D Mario, DKC which are known to be strong system selling franchises and Wii Party/Fit which will show us how popular the Wii brand games still are. On top of that are a bunch of support titles, price cut and new bundles.

Im a diehard Nintendo fan but outside of Pikmin, there isnt any must have games for me personally until Oct/Nov so it only makes sense to wait for black friday sales. I have a feeling alot of people feel the same way and we will see sales improve greatly over the holidays. 

 



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

Nem said:
The price sounds good. But i feel like it will require Mario 3D to really take off and thats only coming out in December. Its too bad they couldnt have that and Mario Kart come out in november. Still, i think it will do enough to compete with the new consoles after the release.


Actually 3D World got bumped up to November 22 and DKC pushed back to December 6



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

For me wii u feels like a bigger 3ds. 3ds have awesome games. Wii u games library pales before 3ds game library. If they pump out good games then I will consider it. But I guess I will get getting ps4 first.



still needs games. I bet if 50 games come out at launch (AAA games) then they be selling like hot cakes.



 

 

if they would have dropped the price of the basic down to 250$ with i would have definitely bought it instead of waiting for a price drop like i have been. I don't require alot of hard drive space and if i did i'd buy it when i needed it. 300 dollars for a system with a quality game is a fair price, unfortunately i already have windwaker. If it were mario 3d land, or sonic, and MAAAAAYBE even new super mario bros, i'd probably have it pre-ordered already.