Soundwave said:
sethnintendo said:
Soundwave said:
Teriol said:
Soundwave said:
superchunk said:
sethnintendo said:
Nintendo should never bow to a 3rd party request after leaving the 3DS launch period up for third parties. 3DS didn't take off till they dropped MK7 and Super Mario 3D Land. Nintendo can't count on third parties and they shouldn't allow them any special grace periods. Nintendo games sell Nintendo consoles.
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Definitely agree. But that may be what is happening with these games... just maybe.
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Wii U sales are going to be ugggggly in North America for Jan-March, I predict it will drop like a rock. Expensive console, few games, no real big sellers being released post-launch, the fanbase getting restless, etc. It's going to be like the 3DS launch all over again.
They better hope a lot of kids care enough about Lego City to spend $350 on a new console for it.
Nintendo will be forced to price cut by summer.
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keep waiting for that my friend..... lol
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Well they can sit there and watch their sales sink even further.
The PS3 has God Of War, Grand Theft Auto V, BioShock Infinite, etc. coming in the first few months of next year for example.
The Wii U ... has crap all lined up. It's going to be the same story for Nintendo ... post-launch drought with a big drop in sales. Same thing happened with the 3DS and GameCube. They don't have a Wiimote + Wii Sports craze to bail them out this time.
Iwata will be stuck in late March apologizing to investors again for a weak post launch Wii U period, making the same types of excuses (we couldn't get Nintendo TVii finished on time, not enough content, need to work more with third parties, blah, blah, blah).
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Right about not having Wii Sports but they still have the Wiimotes. Nintendo Land isn't as good of a system seller as Wii Sports was but it still does a decent job.
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The Wiimote stopped being a selling point years ago (see: Wii sales plummeting the last few years). That was once a blue ocean product, but it isn't anymore. Every platform has some variation of motion gaming nowadays being shoved down every gamer's mouth. In 2006/07 obviously the Wiimote + Wii Sports itself was such a huge attraction that it could drive sales for months on end.
Nintendo does not have this luxury this time around, they needed to make up for that by doing their homework and getting sticking to solid fundementals on selling a game console this time around -- notably releasing good content in the post-launch window. Which from the looks of things, they've managed to screw up -- again.
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From the looks of things I don't think they screwed up. I own Wii U but not NSMBU and that is a 2D Mario launch game. That is huge (for Nintendo to release a 2D launch Mario). You know what the fundamentals of selling a video game console is? Releasing games people want. I still believe Nintendo knows more what gamers want than Microsoft or Sony. Compare Nintendo Wii titles to Sony and Microsoft titles. You know what? They can't compete.
