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NoirSon on 15 July 2013
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leedlelee said:

SubiyaCryolite said:
They really need to advertise the system better. I got mine last week, and when unboxing after work, practically all my workmates didn't know it was a new system. Some thought it was just a controller. My supervisor called it a WiiToo. When updating it at my mates place(he just saw the controller at first), he said it wasn't even a real console. Yet after an Hour with Tekken Tag 2, Miiverse and Rayman Legends Challenge App they were all raving and praising it *facepalm*. Basically "They knew nothing", Nintendo really needs to communicate to the mass market that this is a brand new console.

They made the same mistake with the 3DS...
For a whole year after the 3DS launch you could find reviewers on Amazon complaing that 3DS cartridges don't fight in their DS...
Now, could these people have done better research???
Sure...
Should they have to research something so basic???
Absolutely not...
They need a brand new marketing department...
Some of these upcoming games could be enormously successful, but that's not going to happen because of their current marketing tactics...

 

Completely agree, there is someone very high up at Nintendo that is making critical decisions in regards to marketing Nintendo products that should lose their job. I don't say this lightly because that isn't how I roll when it comes to other people's careers but once (the 3DS) is a mistake they repaired and this second time is worst because the Wii U doesn't have the software development time that the 3DS does nor does it have the 3rd party support and the fact is Nintendo knows there are a lot of younger gamers and gaming media that want to see Nintendo fail because they grew up with either the Playstation or Xbox brand.

It is one thing to say you learned from your mistakes, it is another thing to actually correct them and the launches of both systems are too similar to think some part of Nintendo actually did. The fact is, Nintendo is unlikely to turn things around like they did the Wii U unless the PS4 and Xbox One bomb and it will be a very slow going to rebuild to the level of where the 3DS eventually has come to.