WiiU launched pretty well

[trestres]

CCFanboy said:

trestres said:I honestly don't believe that Wii U will be able to sustain its sales with games like The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, Pikmin 3, Rayman Legends, Monster Hnter 3. Those are niche games and that kind of audience is NOT the audience Nintendo was aiming for with the launch of Wii U. I think their objective failed as far as attracting the kind of gamer they wanted.

I agree with you here but you are completely wrong saying they haven't learned from 3ds. Launching new ips with a console is asking for failure. With any console launch it is better to give your core fanbase what they want to get it off the ground. That is why mario was the best approach. Launching this mario game means they can give the real 3d one more time rather then rushing it. And it isn't sending pikmin 3 (which would only appeal to the gamecube fans) out to die either.

Everything else is balanced out greatly. For games like assassin's creed or mass effect, you don't know unless you try. But this is a big big improvement over 3ds.

I get your point, but they had launched consoles with new IP's in the past, more specifically Wii Sports was a new IP which ended up being what sold the Wii.
There's nothing similar here, or at least if Nintendo Land tried to be that I don't think it has quite succeed perhaps because tablet or dual screen play is not really something new in the gaming world and because Nintendo Land sounds too generic and there's lack of information for the general audience concerning what this game is about and how it is played. Motion controls was an unexplored field and the advertising campaign was way better.