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Forums - Sales Discussion - Is the Wii U Really Doing Bad? My Viewpoint

badgenome on 13 October 2014

My viewpoint: yes.



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chapset on 13 October 2014

'' I believe that it is actually returning to is normal sales'' every times the holidays are coming in people say the same thing than come january and boom :(



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MoHasanie on 13 October 2014

Yes its selling badly although it has a few good weeks in terms of sales.



    

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ExplodingBlock on 13 October 2014
rik said:
I thought nintendo announced every wii u sold since april 14 is now making money so maybe with mk8, smash and the 3ds sales they will finally be in profit. but then there is the n3ds to confuse things


N3DS will sell alot in JP no doubt don't know about NA



oniyide on 13 October 2014
fleischr said:
Generally, we can pin a console's future based on it's first year.

The WiiU's first year was disastrously bad. Awful marketing. Tons of delays. No info on major upcoming releases. Really poor communication to fans. And too many early signs of dwindling 3rd party support and uncertain future with indies. And really, one of the weakest 1st party lineups could really put together.

The second year is trending way up. Better marketing (but still room for improvement). Not all that many disappointing delays. And we're now much better informed via Treehouse on the state of specific games. And although the 'mature' level 3rd party support is gone, the Wii U has games like Skylanders and Lego on lock for a long time to come. The indie support too has been much better than expected. The best of the WiiU's 1st party content is finally beginning to arrive at along last.


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oniyide on 13 October 2014
RolStoppable said:
DanneSandin said:
Yes, Wii U is doing poorly - even compared with GC! And that's not good at all. With the success of the Wii I think it's quite fair to say that Nintendo should have gotten more fans than they had in the GC days, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

If you just consider Nintendo's first four consoles (so NES to GC), then it's clear that there was a decline up to the point that you could safely conclude that the market didn't want what Nintendo made (GC was $99 quickly and still didn't sell). Then came the Wii; while the hardcore threw a fit because it was so different from Nintendo's previous trajectory, the market embraced it. What was Nintendo's response? An evolution of the GC that goes by the name of the Wii U; while the hardcore were confused because of the name, the market saw right through it and stayed clear of it. There's simply no good reason for someone who disliked the GC and liked the Wii to buy a Wii U, because the latter embodies and emphasizes everything that was wrong with the GC.


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vkaraujo on 13 October 2014
RolStoppable said:
DanneSandin said:
Yes, Wii U is doing poorly - even compared with GC! And that's not good at all. With the success of the Wii I think it's quite fair to say that Nintendo should have gotten more fans than they had in the GC days, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

If you just consider Nintendo's first four consoles (so NES to GC), then it's clear that there was a decline up to the point that you could safely conclude that the market didn't want what Nintendo made (GC was $99 quickly and still didn't sell). Then came the Wii; while the hardcore threw a fit because it was so different from Nintendo's previous trajectory, the market embraced it. What was Nintendo's response? An evolution of the GC that goes by the name of the Wii U; while the hardcore were confused because of the name, the market saw right through it and stayed clear of it. There's simply no good reason for someone who disliked the GC and liked the Wii to buy a Wii U, because the latter embodies and emphasizes everything that was wrong with the GC.

Really? I think there are some differences, but i could be mistaken.

I always thought the GC problems were the way it looked and the proprietary media.

 

Wii U seems to have problems in marketing, being saw as kiddy, the online, the third party relationship and the fact they didn't westernized themselves.

 

While i love my Wii U, because of the games, it did a lot of thing worst than the GC. So i'm not sure if this is a anti-nintendo market trend or just a less competitive product.



oniyide on 13 October 2014

yes its selling bad. There is no spin. compare it to PS3 it sold worse and that was much more expensive. Doing worse than GC and N64 and those were considered bad selling consoles. It has to do better than N64 to be ok



oniyide on 13 October 2014
vkaraujo said:
RolStoppable said:
DanneSandin said:
Yes, Wii U is doing poorly - even compared with GC! And that's not good at all. With the success of the Wii I think it's quite fair to say that Nintendo should have gotten more fans than they had in the GC days, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

If you just consider Nintendo's first four consoles (so NES to GC), then it's clear that there was a decline up to the point that you could safely conclude that the market didn't want what Nintendo made (GC was $99 quickly and still didn't sell). Then came the Wii; while the hardcore threw a fit because it was so different from Nintendo's previous trajectory, the market embraced it. What was Nintendo's response? An evolution of the GC that goes by the name of the Wii U; while the hardcore were confused because of the name, the market saw right through it and stayed clear of it. There's simply no good reason for someone who disliked the GC and liked the Wii to buy a Wii U, because the latter embodies and emphasizes everything that was wrong with the GC.

Really? I think there are some differences, but i could be mistaken.

I always thought the GC problems were the way it looked and the proprietary media.

 

Wii U seems to have problems in marketing, being saw as kiddy, the online, the third party relationship and the fact they didn't westernized themselves.

 

While i love my Wii U, because of the games, it did a lot of thing worst than the GC. So i'm not sure if this is a anti-nintendo market trend or just a less competitive product.

its the latter



oniyide on 13 October 2014
RolStoppable said:
oniyide said:
RolStoppable said:

If you just consider Nintendo's first four consoles (so NES to GC), then it's clear that there was a decline up to the point that you could safely conclude that the market didn't want what Nintendo made (GC was $99 quickly and still didn't sell). Then came the Wii; while the hardcore threw a fit because it was so different from Nintendo's previous trajectory, the market embraced it. What was Nintendo's response? An evolution of the GC that goes by the name of the Wii U; while the hardcore were confused because of the name, the market saw right through it and stayed clear of it. There's simply no good reason for someone who disliked the GC and liked the Wii to buy a Wii U, because the latter embodies and emphasizes everything that was wrong with the GC.

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What are you trying to say?

I imagine if someone likes Nintendo games they are going to buy the system regardless of what it embodies at the time.