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archbrix on 09 July 2012
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prayformojo said:
Cobretti2 said:
prayformojo said:

The Wii was a SMASH at it's e3 before launch. People were going nuts for the thing and it was wowing everyone at the show.

I dont knwo what crazy land you live in, but even when I wen tto preorder my Wii a month beofre Launch the guys selling it in the shop where makign fun out of it saying it is udnerpowered and the name was tupid.

Both true facts, but I wanted it because of Zelda and Red Steel at the time.

Do you not remember the e3 when it was finally playable? When the doors opened, there were people acutally SPINTING in mass to play the thing. It was widly popular at the show and everyone was loving it. It was singlehandedly the most coveted thing at the show that year, period.

Definitely true.  However, the main reason that WiiU wasn't a huge hit at this year's E3 was due to the fact that Nintendo's press conference did a terrible job of representing it.  For example, they focused on Batman AC instead of 3rd party games that haven't released yet, such as Assassin's Creed 3, Darksiders 2 and Aliens; that Wii Fit U video was pretty pathetic; the amazing looking Project P-100 was completely absent;  and they finished the show with a freak'n fireworks display for Nintendoland instead of a great teaser from one of their popular franchises.  Many people who actually went hands-on with the games at the show were largely impressed with the offerings, however.

More to the point, thinking that WiiU will be the Gamecube all over again is highly erroneous.  The Gamecube came off of a modest selling console, it launched after the PS2 already had an enormous head start (in both sales and popularity), and it had nothing to differentiate it from the competition.  Not to mention that it never had a 2D Mario title, which really is quite important for a Nintendo system.  None of these will be issues for WiiU.  Seriously, it would really take some doing for any of the big three console makers to only achieve Gamecube-level sales ever again; everyone is just far too popular these days...

Consumers this holiday won't care about Nintendo's E3 press conference.  They're only going to care about a system with some great games and an affordable price.  So far, it seems WiiU will fit that bill.