Tarumon on 07 January 2013
| DanneSandin said: Nintendo Co Ltd's year-end sales of its Wii U games console were steady, though not as strong as when its Wii predecessor was first launched, the Japanese game maker's top executive told Reuters on Monday. The company best known for its Super Mario character is pinning its hopes on the Wii U after logging its first operating loss last year, as gamers ditch console games to play on smartphones and tablets. Nintendo said in October it aimed to sell 5.5 million Wii U devices by the end of March. Wii U, the successor to the blockbuster Wii machine, went on sale in the United States on Nov. 18. The company said later that month that it sold more than 400,000 of the video game consoles in the first week. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said the weaker yen would have little impact on the firm's profits this fiscal year, but would positively impact its foreign denominated assets. Why do they (the media) ALWAYS bring up smartphones and tablets? All they'll do is maintaining the console market on a 7th gen instal base; no growth - but it's not like they'll destroy gaming!! |
The same way they refuse to accept Tablets as an evolutionary step in "computing". But at least there you have the wintel twins losing market share. Nintendo's 3DS and Wii U sales track so closely to their predecessors, calling an entirely new genre of gaming Nintendo's loss is beyond me. I see those as expansions of video gaming industry with vast potential upside as feeder market and now much easily reached audience for future marketing.
