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Kasz216 on 05 June 2013
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justinian said:
Kasz216 said:
famousringo said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
It's not dire, it's exciting! I'm thinking 8gig wipe out and 32gig price drop announcement at e3.


No, I'd say it's pretty dire for Nintendo.

Still, perhaps some quick, decisive action now, followed up with a barrage of quality software, will jumpstart the Wii U like it did the 3DS. Or perhaps it will work out like the PS3, where the flow is staunched but the bleeding just never seems to stop.


Yeah... as far as i can tell this is an oddly unprecedented move.

Console manufacturers usually just leave old models on the shelves.


It can't be that they don't have enough production....

It'd make me concerned if I already owned a Wii U Basic.

 

I wouldn't be too concerned if i owned a Wii U basic, it is still going to play all upcoming wii games just the same as the deluxe.

Yeah, I do agree with you. To ask for systems to be sent back is negative no matter how you spin it. It means you messed up somewhere along the line.

Talk of sending them back to be upgraded doesn't make one bit of financial sense. That would push the overall cost of the returned system over the cost of the ready made deluxe only to sell them for the same price.

If Nintendo want rid of them best to sell them dirt cheap and be the end of it. Give them away almost.

I am puzzled by this. None of the reasons I have read here make any sense. Not saying they are all wrong, who knows, but they just don't seem logical.

That's just what would make me worried... it doesn't make sense.

I can only think of two possibilties

1) a RROD type issue.  Which, nobody has mentioned anything like that, and Nintendo has always been the best at hardware quality, so that seems unlikely.  Plus it wouldn't JUST be the 8 gig then.

 

2) They're upgrading the something with the specs that just makes it so the Wii U basic isn't feasable.  (For example, with the harddrive some games are coming that require a GIGANTIC portion of 8GB.)