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Lewis Ward, an industry analyst with research firm IDC, said that a year ago he would have said that their wasn’t much of a future for the Wii U, but he now feels that the console has a fighting chance against the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Ward says that the Wii U will never be the top selling console, but it can remain competitive.

“I don’t blame Nintendo for going back to the well. If you go back to the Wii, there were some Mario games released in the first couple years that were still selling significant volumes at the end of the Wii’s life cycle.”

“I don’t think there’s any opportunity for the Wii U to come back and be the top-selling” console, Ward said. But is it at least competitive against the Xbox and PlayStation? “If you asked me a year ago, I would have said no shot, but I do think that you see signs of hope.”

 

http://mynintendonews.com/2015/03/14/analyst-says-he-remains-hopeful-that-wii-u-will-be-competitive-against-xbox-one-and-playstation-4/



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I agree it is showing signs of hope but I don't think it can be competitive enough to matter for better or for worse



                  

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I respectfully disagree.

I mean if its biggest sellers have released (I know Zelda still hasn't), and it's still having these like 40K slumps, then I don't see it ever competing.



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It can increase sales all it likes but it'll still be third. Its last place is here to stay.



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Being competitive with PS4 and XBO, I doubt it. This will probably be the Wii U's peak year and many don't expect it to sell more than 4 million consoles. I don't see how that would be considered competitive.




The system *still* can't even hit 100k+ a month in the US outside of Nov/Dec and is bombing in Europe and Japan.

And it's already used up most of the big gun Nintendo IP (Mario Kart, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Smash, DKC, are all spent).

This analyst quite frankly is smoking crack.

It's stabilizing into a pattern of OK mediocrity but it's very likely to be Nintendo's worst selling home console by a long shot and is in no way competetive with the PS4 or XBox One. 



RealGamingExpert said:

Lewis Ward, an industry analyst with research firm IDC, said that a year ago he would have said that their wasn’t much of a future for the Wii U, but he now feels that the console has a fighting chance against the PlayStation 4 and Wii U. Ward says that the Wii U will never be the top selling console, but it can remain competitive.

Why would the Wii U fight itself? :O



Definitely not.



Is the part of the article where he says why withheld? How does he feel it will be competitive? By solely still existing?

The 1st and 3rd paragraph say nothing other than an opinion without explanation. The 2nd paragraph is something about going back to the well and Mario selling well late in the Wii life cycle.

What am I missing?

I think Ouya is the greatest console.

Ouya sure is Ouya-rific. You can't blame Ouya for spelling it's name Ouya. Yeah Ouya is going to be ok because there are over a year old.

Perhaps if he gave some reasons like the best games are still to come, or they are up YOY, or some unannounced price cut is coming or the competitors are taking the summer off.


TL DR Article is missing the the part between the title of the argument and the end of the article.