Nintendo's silence on WiiU to be broken soon

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BaldrSkies said:
Nintendo went into the Wii U launch with a lot of arrogance. Their initial sales expectations were way too high for what they had to offer. They thought they could sell the console on the Nintendo and Wii names alone, thought the touchpad would reel people in with another trendy gimmick like motion on Wii, and thought a DS Mario game would be enough for Nintendo fans and NintendoLand would be another Wii Sports.

They were wrong on all counts. This is a huge management screwup.

The 3DS is doing fine in Japan at least, there's plenty of games in the sales schedule, and some more (*cough Puzzle&Dragons cough*) being added soon.

Arrogance and blindness to see that the Wii brand died a lot during 2010 and beyond. They killed it. They should have managed their resources better and kept Wii owners satisfied while the new console was bening prepared. Even then, I still can't see where the Wii U games are now, what took away so many resources from the Wii? They barely had anything for the Wii U ready, so there's a major fuck up going on or simply a lot of killed projects. Nintendo ended up announcing a lot of vaporware for the Wii and denying the West many games. Gamers leanrt the lesson, casual crowd had nothing else to play with and moved on.

Even in Japan the WiiU is struggling to get any attention. No Japanese devs have ANYTHING coming out for it, a real shame on Nintendo for this one. They should have secured at least a single game.

3DS is another story, and though it's performing very well in Japan, the console is Japanese centered and thus the poor sales in the west. Nintendo mismanaged that launch pretty terribly as well. 2 in a row, total loss of confidence from the market.