JayWood2010 said:
MDMAlliance said:
JayWood2010 said:
The problem is, nintendo has just done a very poor job transitioning into next generation and while they are playing catch up sony and MSFT are going to be miles ahead. Nintendo should have offered more memory since they have all games in the eShop. Memory is pretty cheap so this shouldnt be an issue. Making a cheap console i dont think is going to pay off like it did for the Wii in my honest opinion. |
I disagree with you here. I know a lot of core gamers and casual gamers who both think that price plays a major role on what system they get. When considering a system, a high price point can be very intimidating. Especially when you stack them up against options that are literally hundreds of dollars cheaper. If we have the Wii U drop to $249.99 when the PS4 comes out and it's $449.99, a lot of people will hesitate to buy the PS4 when they see this huge gap in price. They'll naturally go for a cheaper option that is still relevant. This wont apply to everyone, but I know this goes through a lot of peoples' heads. Before I was an avid gamer, when I looked at systems this is how I thought.
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The problem is not that the PS4/Nexbox is too expensive. That isnt the problem at all. It is that the WiiU is competing with prices like the X360/PS3 because it will look more similar to them than the PS4/NeXbox.
I have a WiiU by the way. But when it comes down to it the WiiU will lack in power majorly for the second time. The Wii grabbed the casual crowd but they are most likely gone forever now because now they have phones and tablets to play games on. They might want to play some party games like Just dance though right? Well Kinect has the wii/WiiU beat when it comes to dancing games.
WiiU as already released NSMB so it will have to rely on that and other 1st party games that it brings because once again 3rd parties are just not buying into Nintendo because there 1st party completely overshadows them.
When it comes to motion controls, Nintendo has now been beat. When it comes to graphics, nintendo has been beat. When it comes to 3rd party nintendo has been beat. That means they are completely relying on 1st party at this moment which i cant see helping them push 100m units again
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You're mentioning way more things than I was referring to. The bolded statement implies the Wii's success based on its price rather than what it has or does.
I never made a statement saying it will sell 100m or be as successful as the Wii, but I do think whatever benefits the Wii got for being cheaper will apply for the Wii U as well. Not only that, but there are a lot of oversimplifications in your last paragraph. It's also mostly speculation as we haven't even started the next gen yet with Sony and Microsoft. What's to say Nintendo wont get more 3rd party support? What's to say Nintendo doesn't have other features that the competition don't have like with the Wii? How do you measure how good the motion controls are? There are a lot of questions and a lot of factors. The best we can do is analyse it and take guesses at what might happen.
Also, PS4/720(which I really didn't even bring up) price point WILL be a problem to many people. Saying it isn't is just incorrect. How much of a problem it is depends on many other factors, but I have no doubt that especially in the current state of the economy, the price of hardware will matter.
