Has Nintendo Lost Touch With North America?

[Raze]

Not really any moreso than Sony did at the PS3 launch, or the Vita overall.

The EA situation is more of a pissing match over a poorly programmed distribution tool created to be EA's equivalent of Steam. When Nintendo stops EA from release rights to the 3DS, EA will change their tune fast. They are already skating on thin ice with working beyond their capital means. All it takes is for one more EA flop before they need to start bailing water and killing of some of their studios.

While there's no doubt that the Wii U needs a lot of software support to boost sales, sales overall slump this time of year. The past week's report has the Wii U, which we know is struggling, at 10k units sold, and the PS3 at 34k units sold. It's a slow time overall.

Ultimately, it comes down to one thing - waiting. The PS3 took about 3 years to get up to speed sales wise. I think its only right to see where the Wii U is at that same point in time.

In other words, the Nintendo doom threads should cease until then.