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MDMAlliance on 27 April 2013
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Max King of the Wild said:
zorg1000 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
bananaking21 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
bananaking21 said:
 

 

 

 

If they aren't desperate then they will continue to fail. You don't just take it easy as your product is suffocating. They are desperate and try to turn their console around.

Basically Nintendo is failing because of 3 things in this order: games, marketing, price. At E3 they will fix 2/3 of those and possibly all 3. They will ahow off all there games coming out the rest of the year and many for 2014, E3 should give them some good press/attention and its possible they will drip the price at or ahortly after E3.

Price isn't a factor. $350 isn't expensive. The games and retailer price cuts in March obviously had little effect. Nintendo also won't cut the price. They are already losing per system and probably more than they expected being they are selling less than expected. The Wii U will "turn it around" but it will be among one of the worst systems in terms of sales for Nintendo.


I agree with the bolded, but disagree with the italicized.

The Wii U does not need to sell very much in order to beat their "worst selling systems."   Virtual Boy, Game Cube, and the N64 all did not sell amazingly well but it is very likely that the Wii U will sell better than all of them.  This does not, in any way, make it "among one of the worst systems in terms of sales." 

The markets may be different, but that's irrelevant to the comment you made.