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Are you ok with killing the Wii U so early?

Yes 320 53.60%
 
No 277 46.40%
 
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I would not only be ok with it, I would very much welcome it! I mean, there's no denying that the Wii U was a failure. Doesn't mean it can'T be fun, don't get me wrong. But selling less than the Gamecube? That is some disaster right there! It's Nintendos Dreamcast. Luckily, they have enough money in the bank to not go out of hardware business.

So yeah, bring on NX rather sooner than later.



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Yes, kill the thing already, just like Sony should do with the VITA.



Well it depends on NX, if the platform improved greater than Wii U, then PERHAPS they will drop Wii U, just like Microsoft did once which's Xbox being dropped after 4 years.



Not really.

I´d be if they had, at least, a new Animal Crossing game and a new Metroid game for it. If they had those + the next Zelda game for 2016 I´d be ok, but right now I can´t shake off that feeling that they have fooled their consumers.

I do understand that they don´t want to end financial years with losses but they could push consoles sales with a more agressive marketing campaign..... we don´t see anything about the WiiU anywhere, not in TV, not in websites, not in magazines. They simply don´t advertise the system and they have not been doing it for a long time.
They could follow a different approach and launch the console officially in regions where they never did it, like in Latin America. It´s not that it would require them to burn out all their (huge) savings.

I feel like they have been lazy with the WiiU so I don´t feel ok with that.



I have bought 2 Nintendo systems on my life : NES & Wii U .
After what happened to Wii U, i will buy the next gen console when it drops to 100$ in case it has games i want to play.
I lost the little faith I had on them.



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AZWification said:
KungKras said:

NES and SNES had glorious fifth years.

What did the SNES have in 96 besides Mario RPG and Dream Land 3?

Donkey Kong Country 3, NBA Live, Street Fighter Alpha, Madden.



I don't think its the sucessor to the Wii U. I do think that if it is, it will tank spectacularly.

I don't see why people think it would change anything. Or well... i do, but i think they are epicly wrong.



It's not only they kill it early , the problem is they hadn't released enough games.
Even Dremcast released more games in 2 years it lasted lol.



Well if you want a console with a long life span you shouldn't have bought a Nintendo console in the first place.



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No. Which would probably be why I've repeatedly said that I think they'd be smarter to wait and release in 2017.

It's only rumors, unfounded and certainly unconfirmed, that they would release it in 2016 anyway.

What I want, personally, is to get another good solid year out of my Wii U, and I'd like Zelda U to be Wii U exclusive, not ported to NX, for one so we can have a ground up NX exclusive Zelda down the road to look forward to, but because Wii U also deserves and needs something that it still continues to lack, and that is that ONE game that is a "MUST BUY", that makes the system itself more of a must buy, and is THE definitive game for the console. To me, Wii U has as yet never gotten THAT game. And I think, I hope, that if Zelda U comes even remotely close to living up to the potential that is has, that it could finally be that game. If so, then that needs to happen.

There is just no real reason why Nintendo should NOT give NX more time in the oven, and Wii U more time in the spotlight. Yes, it's a "letdown" of a system, sales-wise. But one last strong year, one "last hurrah", would really mean a lot to it's legacy, not to mention to people like me, who have invested a lot of time and money into the console. I'm certainly in absolutely no hurry to rush out and fork over $400+ (possibly) on a brand new Nintendo console this year. I'd rather get one more year to feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of THIS console first.