| Mythmaker1 said: You're not wrong, but I made sure to qualify my reasoning with "passing knowledge with Wii accessories and a working brain. " Afterall, the kind of person who knows nothing about Wii accessories is probably not the kind of Wii owner who is going to run out and buy a Wii U regardless. And only a very uninformed consumer (in general, not just with regards to video games) would think that a $100 console would have a $350 accessory. The casual market is not well-informed, but it isn't dumb either. The kind of people who might be confused by this are the kind of people who are unlikely to buy the console in the first place. |
I'm not saying the casual market is dumb, but uniformed and it yeilds the same results. If they don't know about the product or think it is something else then it won't sell. It's the informed ones, the savvy consumer, the core gamer and Nintendo fans that are buying the Wii U. That is not enough to sell a large number of Wii U's. Nintendo more than likely reduced its appeal to core gamers with the Wii and is repeating that trend with the Wii U, despite their attempt otherwise. Their system is low powered to what their competition will be offering and is only slightly more powered than the PS3 and 360. The disparity in the last gen caused 3rd party support issues. All of this caused a portion of the core market to avoid Nintendo. Loyaltists aside, a decent chunk of core gamers are hesitant about the Wii U. That mixed with a bad attempt to market to casual consumers results in low sales. In some regards the Vita is having similar issues addressing itself to the market.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
