| TheJimbo1234 said: The WiiU is dead due to poor marketing and no real market position, This combined with the competition smartphones are having on handhelds, Nintendo might have to use that throne of cash to start some seriously needed R&D. |
I'm sorry but you've got to be joking. Wii is hardly "dead", considering by the end of March it will easily have at the very least, 4 million sold, and that's in a fraction of the time it took the "amazing" Vita to get there. Look what happened with 3DS. It had a VERY slow start, but then Mario and Mario Kart and Ocarina of Time came out, and bam, sales were fine. The price drop certainly HELPED, but I think sales would have picked up with those games anyway. The drought doesn't help Wii U at all, but that drought is ending in March. A superior version of Need for Speed, Monster Hunter 3 HD with a console bundle to boot, and Lego City Stories. MH and Lego games alone always sell a lot, and these being home console exclusive (meaning not on other home consoles), will really help. Which makes it all the more idiotic that Ubi didn't just release Rayman as a timed exclusive, with NOTHING else coming out in Feb., and people highly anticipating Legends, it would have sold well. Plus other games are dropping in March like The Walking Dead, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, etc.
But regardless, the rest of the spring holds much of the same, with Wii Fit U coming, Game & Wario, both big selling franchises, Resident Evil: Revelations coming in May, Wonderful 101 by May/June most likely, Injustice: Gods Among Us in April, Pikmin 3 supposed to drop in late spring or summer, etc.
And considering the fact that games like Dragon Quest X (exclusive), Watch Dogs, the next Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed IV, the next Battlefield, Bayonetta 2 (exclusive), Shin Megami Tensai x Fire Emblem, Project CARS, undoubtedly the next CoD game, etc. are coming down the road, not to mention Nintendo's own 1st party titles, I hardly think they're "dead", by any stretch of the imagination. And to suggest that mobile phone/tablet games are eating into the portable market THAT much is kind of silly. People don't buy phones or tablets for games. They just happen to download games on them, most of which they play in few-minutes-at-a-time bursts. People who want GAMING on the go still buy portable consoles. 3DS is doing fine, and Vita would do better if it would actually get some better games.
