Nintendo is working on the Wii U's launch

[Mr Khan]

Paul said:

Joelcool7 said:

RolStoppable said:

 

That's actually a pretty good post. A few minor things I don't entirely agree with, but in general it's well thought out.

Wow thats an honor coming from you, I have only heard you compliment my posts a few times and those I can probably count on one hand. Glad you liked it!

glimmer_of_hope said:
I think it's safe to say that Nintendo had the donkey dung scared out of them from the 3DS launch.That was very close to a disaster and for sure brought them down to earth.

I expect a sensational launch for Wii U. I am going as far to say GTA5 will be there for launch day.

Very close to a disaster? What do you consider a disaster exactly? Nintendo says it will post its very first annual operating loss in its recorded history. Now admittedly a large amount of that loss is creditted with the currency issues. However Nintendo exec's themselves have stated 3DS is a large factor.

Nintendo to my knowledge has never sold hardware at a loss. I remember when they discounted GameCube they actually went into the hardware and cut as much as they could. The GameCube in its second year was entirely different and by the third year IBM had completely cut costs and so did the other companies. Only towards the very end when Nintendo cut GCN's price to 99$ did Nintendo start taking losses on GCN hardware.

I would not only say that 3DS was a disaster but a cotastrophe. Its the second largest screw up in Nintendo history second only to Virtual Console. Actually financially Nintendo didn't take a loss with Virtual Console so this could be seen as even a bigger financial disaster.

If the 3DS was a disater with one year of losses what can be said of the PS3 and Xbox 360 launches?

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