| Pyro as Bill said: The guy from MS who said that WiU is little more than a 360 is correct. Kinect sold more 360s than 3D did for the PS3 or 3DS. PREDICTION: Kinect will sell more 360s/720s than an extra (controller) screen will for Wii-U. The extra screen WILL NOT sell the Wii-U. PREDICTION: Not a single 'assymetric gameplay' game will hit 10M or 20M. Nintendo has absolutely no idea what they're doing. A year in and we're already seeing the 3DSXL. Desperation. 2D Mari-U will do no more for WiiU than MK7 did for 3ds. The extra screen will hardly be used after the first year, maybe Nintendo will keep using it but 3rd parties will prety much drop it for it's GAMING features. If Nintendo wins next gen it will be because Sony and MS completely eff up. Sony's nearly out of here but MS should win if they don't focus on Kinect and continue appealing to the PC gamer. PREDICTION: If Wii-U has a 10M or 20M seller it will be because of motion control or symmetric local multiplayer. |
No, the extra screen will not sell the Wii-U. It is GAMES that will sell the hardware, as has always been the case. Hell, even the once doomed PSP caught fire in Japan simply from the phenomenon that is Monster Hunter. All it takes for the Wii U is one Monster Hunter type success to take off. And if we look at the lineup, there is already much potential for that. NSMB U will do wonders for the console's sales right off that bat, though it probably won't be as sucessful as its predecessors. But then you also have Wii Fit, Sing, and Just Dance that are likely to bring in major sales as well. At the same time though, I will say the Wii U needs its own brand new successful IP, as relying on old established ones is not going to cut it forever.
You're listening to the gaming media too much in regards to the importance of the hardware. The horsepower will mean nothing. The Wii U gamepad screen means nothing, besides perhaps acting as a bit of a deal sweetener for cross-platform third party games, which will allow them to be a little more unique on Nintendo's console. It will be the games that determines whether the Wii U sells 20 million or 200 million, or (more than likely) somewhere in between. Until we have seen the performance and quality of these new games, we just don't know.
