Global HW & SW Up! 19th January

[JGarret]

OceanJ said:

newwil7l said:
Pathetic sales for everything except 3DS. I have said this before and I'm going to say it again. Nintendo is so stupid for naming the Wii U, Wii U. Everyone thinks its just a Wii with a fancy controller. They don't understand that it is the successor to the Wii. Ninty needs to do damage Control with the U, like they did with the 3DS. They need to make it clear to the GP that it is a new system.

Yep. Everyone who saw this as an obviously bad choice, have been proven right.

The Wii U is now in a 3DS situation.  It must climb out of a deep hole.  

Price-cuts are coming quickly.  Nintendo will now post 2 Annual losses in a row - that's an unprecedented blow to Nintendo.  Before 2011 they had NEVER, not once lost money annually.  Now they're going to do it twice in a row.  Really sad.

And no - I am NOT saying Nintendo is Doomed.  Long-term, they'll be fine, only because of the Billions in cash they have in the bank.  And, it's not game over for Wii U.  Nintendo will just continue to lose money, until they prove the Wii U's comeback, or open up other revenue streams.

And I have to admit I was wrong about Wii U and Nintendo.  I defended it quite a lot.  But - I would be an insane person to ignore the facts of the sales numbers, and the overall situation, and to not admit the reality.  But I am not an insane person, and yes - Nintendo is defeated this round, yet again.

I just can't imagine Satoru Iwata staying on as President for much longer.  Nintendo Direct's and announcements are nothing.  Talk is cheap.  Nintendo has already failed to come through on many a previous announcement...their words mean nothing.

It´s a sad, sad irony that Iwata, one of the main people responsible for turning the DS and the Wii into huge successes, for making them their best selling systems ever, is the same man whose company he currently runs will now be posting (if you´re correct) two annual losses in a row.