Marketing sucks right now. This has either been the poorest or stupidest marketing campaign I have seen in a long time:
1. Nintendo hasn't shown that they have any major games in development for the Wii U. What is this bullshit with Pikmin being the biggest game people have to talk about? That is lame as hell.
2. Poor communication about the interesting functionalit of the screen. Seriously, the focus should be on how the touchscreen interface and how you can play full games on the TV or the screen. No one is going to get the gameplay aspects until they actually hold a Wii U Gamepad and play some games with it for a few hours. It is just like 3D on 3DS, it would have been best advertised by striking a deal and getting top 3D movies out on it like Avatar.
3. Poor price point, why should people pay such a high price for a console whose most exciting game we know about is the second 2D Mario game released this year?
4. Not a good enough marketing of the Mario game, many people don't even realize it is a different game from the 3DS one that came out around the same time; and people who knew about how NSMB2 sucked won't realize that NSMBU is actually a fairly great game.
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