We need to talk about the Wii U sales, what happened?

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RolStoppable said:

trestres said:

Not really saying that it's due to Nintendo shifting away from the core, because I did point out the many flaws that are ongoing. I'm saying that Nintendo lost a fragile audience, which is the casual player. There's no doubt that there's 2 different kind of gamers, even Iwata using the word core, as he knows that the difference exists, as most people do. Nintendo has indeed lost touch with them and there's no more Nintendo in the headlines anymore, as their new product isn't provoking any curiosity among people, it's just more of the same in the eyes of the common consumer.

It's not a shallow analysis by any means, you should try to read it again without the bias you have against me, I know you do :) and rightfully so. I may sound a bit harsh on Nintendo, but they are in a bad position right now aren't they? And what problems do you say Nintendo is trying to adress that don't really exist?

I've seen a lot of Nintendo supporters changing their opinions about Nintendo and their strategy as of late 2010, and though I'm sure I overcriticized Nintendo before then, time proved me right on many of my concerns.

If there are two different kinds of gamers, which category would you say I belong to?

One suppposed major problem that Nintendo tried to address was the lack of big name third party games on the Wii. The sales of the launch batch of Wii U games makes it already clear that this wasn't too much of a problem on the Wii. At least not a big enough problem to abandon the Wii and start over with a new console. There was no need for a new console when it comes to Nintendo games. Pretty much everything they are going to do on the Wii U could have been done on the Wii. The main controller of the console was changed to appease third parties, not to continue what was started with the Wii. In short, much of the Wii U's design doesn't fall in line with what consumers wanted.

You kept criticizing Nintendo for abandoning core gamers and predicted their sales will suffer in the future. You were only right about the sales, but not the reasons.

your right they should have stuck with the wii becuase, they still would have got games like blops 2, AC3 and batman, i'm sure devs would like to make a version for the wii, which looks like crap and runs at 5fps, great post. LOL

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