| AbbathTheGrim said: Yeah, because a lot of people got attached to the Wii they will do so with the WiiU as well, like people did initially with the PS3 after the PS2 success. Nintendo, keep this reasoning going, it will take you to where you deserve. |
Feel free to be skeptical of the Wii U, but don't make absurd statements like the one I've just quoted.
Nintendo isn't saying that the Wii U will succeed because of the Wii. They're saying that talk about the Wii U as not being like the Wii because of media reaction doesn't make sense, because the Wii got the exact same reaction from the media.
In other words, he's talking about the hypocrisy of condemning the Wii U for "not being like the Wii", with the argument actually being exactly the same one that was used to justify expecting the Wii to sell poorly.
It doesn't mean the Wii U will sell well, it just means that you need a stronger argument if you want to claim that it won't.
As for comparing the Wii U to the PS3, I'll point out that not only do Nintendo have the PS3 to learn from (and therefore can avoid the mistakes that Sony made), but the Wii U pretty much addresses every single problem that the PS3 had - late launch relative to main opposition (the PS3 and the 360 were destined to be close competitors), the very high price ($599, and people will "save up to buy one"), the lack of launch games, the lack of early major exclusives (for instance, no Final Fantasy, which was one franchise that sold the PS2 very strongly), and the difficulty in developing for it (they got Darksiders 2 running on the Wii U in something like 5 weeks, to the state of being a playable demo, and that was a year ago, and Gearbox has more recently gushed about how easy it is to develop for the Wii U).
This doesn't guarantee that the Wii U will sell well, but it does invalidate your argument.
