Nintendo Fans Same Excuse?

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KingHades said:

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You must have very well informed and realiable sources to claim every Wii U/Nintendo fan uses the same excuse regarding this terrible mismanagement and not consider this as flamebait while asks for no trolling in the thread.

Anyway, answering to the question in the OP maybe it is because all of us Nintendo/Wii U fans expect sales to pick up with the heavy hitters and a more steady stream of games.

What other argument should we use if the price cut didn't help?

Yes,but your missing the point the GameCube had the games which are what matters the most yet it failed to receive the sales that I guess it "should have" gotten.

There are a lot of variables in the market. We simply cannot guarantee that only one factor (games in this case) will "save" an entery console. It needs games, marketing and a healthy perception. Also, the actual situation is not the same than the one during the GameCube era as the market is no more concentrated basically in one solely console. Believing that the first party support was not enough ignoring all those different uncontrollable variables is not true.

Support from external developers it's now most likely multiplatform, not exclusive like in those years. Even some developers will be forced to put some of their games in the platform, which didn't happen during those years. This gives more options to players and the perception of a worth product purchased unlike the GC era where the others consoles have the "worthless perception" compared to the leader's amount of offerings.

Let's not forget about the late variants in gameplay that motion controls and touch screens are allowing to be developed, again, unlike in those years when every console was played in the same way (compared to this day) relying almost only on the traditional controller. Games are not the same as the GC era because the experience is not the same. Interfaces are evolving and offers different options to consumers which leds them to find worthy the idea of buying more than one device.

Market has grow enough, not in the number of consumer but in tha amount of different offerings. We cannot rule out, in this case, that the next sequel to Wii Sports is going to sell well if the market reacts to a new experience result of a combination of touch screen and motion controls, or that the NFC feature will explode if it's used in a way the market finds interesting.

"Games" are not Mario/Zelda, "games" are the experiences we expect the company to develop with these new interfaces. Market positive reaction is something that nobody can guarantee, not even Nintendo, but it is what we hope as it is their last card.