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happydolphin on 10 December 2012
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Mazty said:
happydolphin said:
Mazty said:
supermariodance said:
Why do UK hate Nintendo so much?

They don't "hate" the wii U, they just don't care for it. It doesn't offer many exclusives and nowadays it's all about smartphones.

It's way too soon to tell if, on the long run, the U will be more interesting than smartphones.

Nintendo has something that the smartphones don't have, and that's Nintendo's IPs (bar very minor exceptions).

Also, if you were right, the 3DS would agree with you. But it doesn't. Ie, Nintendo IPs > smartphones threat.


You have to be "cool" on release to be "cool"  -the Wii U will not find the same audience it had for the Wii U as those housewives are now on tablets, and the gamers have left to either the 360 or PS3. 

IP's - you mean the same games that have been given to the market every year for the last decade? Serious gamers have moved past them. Only Nintendo fans are interested in another Mario etc anymore, and those fans are not enough to keep a console afloat. 

How did the 3DS sell? How is it selling compared to the DS and more importantly, how are there them stocks lookin' for Ninty?

You are horribly mistaken. There are not 25m+ Nintendo fans out there, and yes many in the last 5 years bought NSMB Wii and Mario Kart Wii, so you might be eating crow after the U gets some time to build momentum and offer a better price.

As for 3DS, take a look at the charts, it's doing ok. As for the UK specifically, you'd have to go over the weeklies. I don't have the patience to do that, but, to give you an idea, here are the first few weeklies that isolate UK:

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40783/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40790/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40797/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40804/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40811/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40818/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40825/UK/

There are more but I'm not going over all of them to prove what we already know, that the 3DS is doing ok in Europe.