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What's up with the forecasts?

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EntilZha said:
For this go around, Nintendo could not decide what to do. The first, and biggest mistake was the name.

I agree. The name is terrible

I get when they revealed the name and the philosophy of not forgetting about U when aiming the console for Wii type audiences... but they have largely forgotten about U because they almost treat it as if PS3 and X360 never existed so any improvements they are offering core gamers disappointed in Wii lack of HD and online services are happening on top of Wii as an improvement, and not against the PSN / XBL as an inferior offering.

Also, as they did before, they are under serving the "core" gamers on next-gen capabilities by being the least powerful new console on the market and as such do not get many of the best 3rd party games (the exact problem the Wii always had being repeated).

Nintendo basically lacked clear vision on 3DS (no one cares for 3D), but made it up with derth of quality games unique to handheld console space

Nintendo again lacked clear vision on Wii U (no one cares for tablet controller), but can't really make it up with surge of quality gaming unique to it because the competition from MS and Sony is much stronger for home console than it is on portable space.

I like the Wii U a lot, but it will never amount to anything more than a secondary console for me.

It is the best console for a family and for couch multiplayer and my young kids with games like Nintendo Land and Super Mario 3D World that even my 5 year olds can enjoy. Kid friendly quality games on it that can be played with Wii remotes is where they succeed. The Gamepad is a large gimmick thing with short battery life that is too big for kids hands.



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osed125 said:

Exactly. That just shows how bad Sony financials are, and how many people here are delusional about it.


the old "ive got nothing in respomse so im going to try to deflect tje argument by bringing up irrelevant informatiom" bit. classy



Theyre completely out of touch with the consumer, the market and reality.



                            

cusman said:
EntilZha said:
For this go around, Nintendo could not decide what to do. The first, and biggest mistake was the name.

I agree. The name is terrible

I get when they revealed the name and the philosophy of not forgetting about U when aiming the console for Wii type audiences... but they have largely forgotten about U because they almost treat it as if PS3 and X360 never existed so any improvements they are offering core gamers disappointed in Wii lack of HD and online services are happening on top of Wii as an improvement, and not against the PSN / XBL as an inferior offering.

Also, as they did before, they are under serving the "core" gamers on next-gen capabilities by being the least powerful new console on the market and as such do not get many of the best 3rd party games (the exact problem the Wii always had being repeated).

Nintendo basically lacked clear vision on 3DS (no one cares for 3D), but made it up with derth of quality games unique to handheld console space

Nintendo again lacked clear vision on Wii U (no one cares for tablet controller), but can't really make it up with surge of quality gaming unique to it because the competition from MS and Sony is much stronger for home console than it is on portable space.

I like the Wii U a lot, but it will never amount to anything more than a secondary console for me.

It is the best console for a family and for couch multiplayer and my young kids with games like Nintendo Land and Super Mario 3D World that even my 5 year olds can enjoy. Kid friendly quality games on it that can be played with Wii remotes is where they succeed. The Gamepad is a large gimmick thing with short battery life that is too big for kids hands.


I like the last few paragraphs, well put. Anyone with a serious interest in the video game industry should never pick up the Wii U. It's only a solid buy if you have young kids. 

 



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pezus said:

"Won't hit" is an understatement . They will be millions off on both

Don't worry Sony will be bankrupt in the next 2 years and PlayStation 5 will never happen ;)

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Talk about being butthurt. If you don't know how statistics work, don't bother bringing up a forecast that some analysts have made. The 79% chance of Sony going bankrupt in 2 years is most likely under the assumption that there is no change and that Sony follows the thread that they have been following for the past few years. We don't entirely know the factors that these so called analysts have considered but it's very likely that they have missed out key variables in their analysis. Besides it's a prediction based on numerous assumptions. No one can perfectly predict the market.



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swii26 said:
http://mynintendonews.com/2014/01/11/nintendo-lowers-wii-u-sales-forecast/

The analyst David Gibson lowered his Nintendo-forecast, not Nintendo itself: https://twitter.com/gibbogame



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osed125 said:

Exactly. That just shows how bad Sony financials are, and how many people here are delusional about it.


the old "ive got nothing in respomse so im going to try to deflect tje argument by bringing up irrelevant informatiom" bit. classy

He asked a question I answered it. Could go into detail but there are plenty of threads already explaining Sony's situation



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Carl2291 said:
Theyre completely out of touch with the consumer, the market and reality.

The 3DS doesn't exist?



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pezus said:
osed125 said:

The 3DS doesn't exist?

They predicted 18m for it. They will be 3-5m off that mark.

That doesn't make then out of touch with consumers nor the market. Only with reality. 



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pezus said:
osed125 said:
pezus said:

They predicted 18m for it. They will be 3-5m off that mark.

That doesn't make then out of touch with consumers nor the market. Only with reality. 

Well, it sort of does. They misread consumers and the market. I wouldn't say they're "out of touch" maybe, but they're definitely not very good at predicting the consumer/market.

That would make almost all forecasts in recent years where neither Sony, MS nor Nintendo are in touch with consumers/market, since is extremely common for companies to not meet their targets.

Is basically the same as Capcom wanting to sell 5 million copies of RE 6, the game sold like 3 million units or something, very good sales meaning that a lot of people were interested and (in some cases) liked the game. Based on sales they were "in touch" with the consumer and the market, they however where too optimistic (or delusional) with their forecasts.



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