| megaman79 said: Your rationalization is inconcise, way too early in judgement, and furthermore it seems as though you yourself have problems interpreting your own thought patterns. Not sure why you would say that. To think that 80 million customers are just going to dissapear off the face of the planet is really quite a remarkable achievement in denial though, congrats. |
Just like it's a remarkale achievement for the 150 million people who bought a PS2 to not by the PS3? Consumers don't just cling like that. The bulk of the 95 million or so who've bought the Wii are casual gamers, and most moved on from the Wii years ago apart from the odd Just Dance game, which they don't need a Wii U for and the Kinect is a lot more appealing to that crowd anyway. Look at the buzz around the Wii at launch, that thing was massive with the casuals. The Wii U? Most don't even really know what it is (I would bet a lot don't even know it exists)... so that's why I don't think it'll be a big casual hit.
So let's talk about core gamers then. The only core gamers that seem to be really excited about the Wii U are Nintendo fans with a few exceptions. I'm not a Nintendo fan, I am a core gamer, and I kind of want it... but "kind of want it" is about as far as I'll go, and it's farther then where most core gamers will go. They just aren't interested for the most part. They are either more than satisfied with their current HD console/PC or waiting on the other 2 next gen consoles. Hell, sometimes it feels like there's more buzz around Orbis and Durango than the Wii U and they haven't even been announced yet. The last 2 reasons why it doesn't appeal to most core gamers is hardware-wise, it's a fairly small leap over what we have already, and do you think most core gamers care about the GamePad?
Sure, I am judging pretty early on... but so what? This site is largely about speculation and predictions, and if you don't want to discuss that than don't reply to speculations and predictions.
