CVG writer says “there are some really special things lined up for Wii U

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cunger said:

Chark said:

cunger said:

I was never really worried about the system....  Nintendo soft launches their systems now but does it before competition arrives and this way they can sort out the bugs and then released the killer apps versus their competitors launches.  It's a reasonable strategy.

Well that's not true. Wii, Gamecube, N64. They might have managed it with Wii U, but its the expection.

I never claimed that they used to do soft launches.  I'm saying that they now do softlaunches. It's the 3ds strategy all over again. That much is quite obvious.  The wii was a success a lot sooner than they expected it to be. But even the Wii had several promised features which were not yet available when the console launched.   Thanks to a controller that an idiot could try once and love and the delay of a gamecube zelda game the system was an instant success.

I guess if you count 3DS. That strategy isn't that great in my opinion. The competition could be launching with a really strong software lineup, they would have to also be doing soft launches for Nintendo's strategy to be effective. As for working out bugs, that was probably the best for Nintendo, but Sony and MS aren't heading into this gen with limited experience to the level of hardware they are pushing. Their online infastructures are established and the consoles will be fully tested before launch. There could still be bugs, but I think they are better set up to handle them. It's good Nintendo is priming itself up to compete this holiday rather than going in blind or something, but it will be hard for them to go head to head. Two console launches and Wii U remarketing, what a crazy year this will be.