WiiU launched pretty well

[trestres]

CCFanboy said:

trestres said: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.

I see. I think part of wii u's problem is it seems aimed more at core gamers. The branding will already confuse the casual market. But as you say the main problem is that wii u is offering nothing really new. Just trying to coat itself into being something new.

Yes, basically that if we speak about software, it's more of the same for core gamers. But the Wii U does bring new things to the table, it's Nintendo and other devs who are not showing it and the consumer will opt to buy the cheaper systems for the same experience. Wii U needs titles made specifically for its system, it won't draw in core gamers who already probably have an HD system that has a game catalog hundreds of times bigger and is cheaper and getting the main versions of games.

Nintendo didn't do too much to differentiate itself from the competition during launch and they needed to since the system is basically the same. Only to newcomers or casual buyers, this will be a cool thing to get, but even then there's not enough new unique software to attract casual players.