Wii U: Nintendo 'Got It Wrong With This Console' - Pachter

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se7en7thre3 said:

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1. price won't help hardware, software will.  Doesn't matter if the Wii U is free.  It needs games.  You can't do anythign with a Wii U without games.  (well actually you can these days, but nothing you already don't have in your house)

 

disagree.  Gamers today are "smarter" than ever, with access to gaming news sites, forums etc...with the repeated topics "Wii U is not next gen" "wii u is not powerful enough" "wii u is not much visually better than ps360".  So there is a fixed value in those consumers' minds, and at $299-350, its simply not worth the "upgrade" to most, so only Nintendo fans will buy in.  For this thing to fly off shelves, yes, it needs (exclusive/unique) games but it has to flourish as a 2nd household console, meaning slash the price $50-100. 

Do you think the Vita would fly off the shelves it were $50 cheaper?  No difference in anything else, no more games than it currently has, no new announced games that haven't been announced already.  Just tomorrow it is $50 cheaper.  Do you think it would outsell 3DS this month?  Or even come close?

Price isn't everything.  People going to gaming sites or hearing about systems are saying the system is overpriced because it has less Ram or bad CPU or ect.  They hear its overpriced because there is not a good enough library for the system.  The better the library the more expensive a console can be.