| Mazty said: But let's compare the stock scenario to that of the Nexus 4. The Wii U is reguarly in stock. The Nexus 4 sells out within minutes. It's obvious that joe-average isn't bothered about the Wii U and that your average gamer has either a 360 or PS3 to play on. Considering the Wii U isn't offering many exclusives that appeal to core gamers, well, why would they buy the Wii U? |
You're comparing a gaming system with smartphone. They are not comparable in this manner. And again, as I said, oftentimes the image of being hard to get drives immediate demand up, as people try harder to get them earlier due to the fear that they won't be able to get one until much later than they intended. This is why the Wii sold so well early on - the self-reinforcing demand cycle. Comparing Wii with Wii U in this way is unreasonable.
Meanwhile, I think you confuse core gamers with so-called hardcore gamers. Core gamers look at NSMB U, ZombiU, Black Ops 2, Scribblenauts, Assassin's Creed 3, Epic Mickey 2, Rabbids Land, and NintendoLand, and consider that to be quite a reasonable lineup for a launch, most likely with at least one of those games appealing to them. The self-professed "hardcore", on the other hand, will list off games not available for the system and go "that's why it has no games", rather than looking at what it actually has. And many will refuse to consider NSMB U, NintendoLand, or Scribblenauts to be appealing games because they aren't "teh maturez".
In the longer term, there's plenty of exclusives and semi-exclusives that appeal to core gamers, including Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Dragon Quest X, Lego City Undercover, Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends, and Bayonetta 2, to name the biggest confirmed ones. Again, most of these are titles that the so-called "hardcore" will refuse to pay attention to for one reason or another (MH3 and Bayonetta 2, probably because of the "traitor" element as they see it). The "hardcore" won't buy a Wii U unless given very strong reason to. Fortunately, the "hardcore" number in the hundreds of thousands at best, not in the millions.
