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Forums - Gaming Discussion - The Verge: "Why The Wii U Failure Wont Change Nintendo"

Scoobes on 19 December 2013
Augluae said:
hiimnew said:
Augluae said:
DerpSandwich said:
Didn't read. Anyone who says it's a failure after one year is an idiot.

Anyone who thinks it's not probably has zero knowledge or experience of either economic, commerce, consumerism, marketing, or simply the video game market

You say this, yet do YOU have experience?

Again I work in a trend cabinet, and yes I've work in the video game industry for 2 years, but mainly I have played and follow the market for 10 years and that's my job to see or predict the future (in terms of trends, technology, society, politic...etc...and here I'm not even talking about 20 years/50 years long scenario, but the OBLIGATORY failure of the Wii U as of now).

jonathanalis said:
no problem to put some demos in iOs and google play for free. 
If in the ending it says: "continue on wii U".

About failuring: they survived to GC and N64. With the money of wii and DS they can survive 4 more gens failuring in home console.
They will only abandon hardware when they failure both in handheld and home consoles for 2 gens.

NOPE. The reason why Nintendo WAS successful and HAD great quality games is because they combined both console and software, like Apple combines devices and OS.

Unfortunetely, Iwata completely lost it, and they've made nothing but wrong decision for both console and software that they are already paying.

And the ONLY thing I hope for, is that the Wii U console cycle won't last long so that Nintendo release a true new and powerful console in 2/3 years.

@ bolded

Considering the difficulty Nintendo have found the step up to HD development (as seen by the relatively sparse first-party release schedule of the last year), do you really see it as feasible for Nintendo's development studios to switch to a whole new range of hardware again in such a short time span?




Get your Portable ID!

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prayformojo on 19 December 2013

"Nintendo isn’t one to go with the grain; they’ve built a successful company off of introducing hardware that revolutionizes the way we interact with game content"

The SNES says no.



SubiyaCryolite on 19 December 2013

Indeed, patiently waiting for SNES 2.0



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

zorg1000 on 19 December 2013
Augluae said:
Replies prove one thing: Nintendo fanboys are completely naive (that's a nice word to say something worse...) and are the ones who will ruin Nintendo. It's a shame.


Im still waiting for an explanation on how releasing a new powerful console in 2 years is going to help Nintendo



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

DevilRising on 19 December 2013
Augluae said:
Replies prove one thing: Nintendo fanboys are completely naive (that's a nice word to say something worse...) and are the ones who will ruin Nintendo. It's a shame.


If that was your way of indirectly replying to my comment to you, then you're very sad. Have a nice day.



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Seece on 19 December 2013

As long as Nintendo can make money on their systems, I don't think they need to/should change. I just don't think they can make much more money being third party on either other home consoles or mobile.

If their current system is doomed to low sales then they just have to adapt expectations around that until their next shot.



 

Augluae on 19 December 2013
zorg1000 said:
Augluae said:
Replies prove one thing: Nintendo fanboys are completely naive (that's a nice word to say something worse...) and are the ones who will ruin Nintendo. It's a shame.


Im still waiting for an explanation on how releasing a new powerful console in 2 years is going to help Nintendo

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Seece said:
As long as Nintendo can make money on their systems, I don't think they need to/should change. I just don't think they can make much more money being third party on either other home consoles or mobile.

If their current system is doomed to low sales then they just have to adapt expectations around that until their next shot.


zorg1000 on 19 December 2013
Augluae said:
zorg1000 said:
Augluae said:
Replies prove one thing: Nintendo fanboys are completely naive (that's a nice word to say something worse...) and are the ones who will ruin Nintendo. It's a shame.


Im still waiting for an explanation on how releasing a new powerful console in 2 years is going to help Nintendo

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Seece said:
As long as Nintendo can make money on their systems, I don't think they need to/should change. I just don't think they can make much more money being third party on either other home consoles or mobile.

If their current system is doomed to low sales then they just have to adapt expectations around that until their next shot.

that doesnt explain anything, I actually think Seece agrees with me on this, releasing a new console in 2 years wont help, they just need to pump out as much high quality software as possible and try to get Wii U to make some profit.



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

Augluae on 19 December 2013
padib said:
Sorry, but Nintendo has a bright future with WiiU. Trending cabinets are usually wrong when it comes to Nintendo.

Obviously fanboyism roday is about latecomer (you didn't have a Snes, a N64 no even a Gamecube) who are completely ignorant about both Nintendo, Video Game and the Market.

Fanboyism are the one destroying brands today (the same is happening with Apple).

Sadly, while most sane and objective people already know that the Wii U is a failure, fanboys will continue to kill Nintendo by supporting their mistale and only realize this when the Wii U is not produced anymore in 2/3 years from now.






Podings on 19 December 2013

It has more than double the install base of the Xbox One.

And the current sales aren't lagging far behind.

Actually, just to catch the Wii U with the current discrepancy would take the Xbone two years.

It's a little too early to call it a failure or a "misfire".