Calls for Wii U price cut begin after Nintendo financials

[TomaTito]

oni-link said:

TomaTito said:

Don't know how Nintendo thought they could do Wii numbers with the WiiU. It has sold between Wii and HD consoles and sold at a launch price between those as well.

The games are coming (late but they are), I just think Nintendo need to make their Gamepad more useful with programs for it, like Art Academy or find the next WiiFit. I also said it before, but I'd love Skype on it :D

Dude...they never said they would do Wii numbers and nobody expected them to!!! That's an annoying statement with no basis!!! Besides Wii U doesn't need Wii numbers to be successful. IMHO as long as they keep away from selling Vita numbers (they are 3.1mil in ~2 months) they are gonna be ok.

Nintendo had a forecast of 5.5 million WiiU's shipped for end of March. Nintendo shipped 5.8 million Wii's during the first five months after launch. They were able to produced enough WiiU's to meet demand while the Wii was limited, maybe that's a reason why they thought they could reach that forecast.