Global HW & SW Up! 19th January

[Conegamer]

Fireforgey said:

Conegamer said:

Fireforgey said:

Deyon said:
i wonder how much will it take the wiiu to bounce back up, i would say 3rd quarter.

It'll start doing better once Rayman Legends, the Wonderful 101, and Pikmin 3 are released.  It'll pick up huge steam once Wind Waker HD comes out, very simmilar to the 3DS.  I think it just needs some time and better marketing.  The price, games, releases are all make a great mix for success.  I think the biggest metric will be next week when we see the results of the Nintendo Direct.  I think Nintendo has a great opportunity to show the power of talking directly to the consumers.  If it gets big boost this week or the next...That would be awesome and would mean that Nintnedo Direct is definitely the way of the future.   Honestly this is really cool, I mean just imagine a video on the internet making a huge impact on sales without spending a cent on advertising. 

Sorry for my ramblings, my inner business student is excited ^^.

I don't think a ND will have an effect on sales. However, everything else you said is accurate. Perhaps the only thing that needs to be done is advertising; show them it's new, show them what it can do (the Monolith Soft trailer, for example), and tell people why they need it and why it's so cheap. That ain't happening now.

But ust imagine the consequences if the Nintendo Direct does have a powerful effect?  What would that mean for the industry?  I will probably be disapointed but a man can dream, can't he?

Oh definitely, it would be nice if there were positive side effects. And there are; I've heard plenty of people talking about it now where they didn't before. So it's whether or not that buzz results in sales; and it likely will. Just not now.