If the Wii U sells about as much as the N64 will you be happy with those sales?

[JGarret]

Metallicube said:

spurgeonryan said:

Will Nintendo and investors be happy?

 

They seem to be using the same strategy as they did with the Cube and N64. That is why I am asking. Or I just notice some of the same things happening.

 

Also makes me wonder if the Wii was just a fluke and the Wii U will just continue the downward slide Nintendo has had in console sales since the NES?

I'm pretty convinced Nintendo doesn't really care about the sales anymore. If they were really concerned with sales they would have dropped the Wii U price already. I think they care more about making profit, and making the type of games THEY wish to make. I am a big Nintendo fan, but I've always been annoyed by their stubbornness and their logic of trying to get others to adapt to THEM instead of the other way around, like it should be. It wasn't until the dismal 20 million sales of Gamecube for Nintendo to break from their stubborn ways and alter their strategy to accomidate a mass market audience.

Wii was not a fluke, Wii was Nintendo chaning their philosophy, and the sales followed. Sadly, now they've pretty much reverted back to their Gamecube/N64 strategy with the same type of niche games. Those types of games recieved mediocre sales before, and they will now.

You know, I think you´re right there..and think about it, it only took one successful console (Wii) for Nintendo to go back to the old strategy, which means they must´ve been really eager to do so.They thought that releasing a NSMB game was going to be enough to sell loads of systems to the people who made NSMB Wii a huge success.