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Lonely_Dolphin on 15 July 2013
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Dunban67 said:
Nintendo should drop the price of the Wii U now or at the very least by Holiday sales season.

The strategy used successfully for the 3ds plus the holiday sales will help the Wii U sell more units than previous, but it will not have the same impact as it did for the 3ds-

Nintendo seems to be betting big on this strategy and I do not think it will do near enough for the Wii u. The lineup of games they are betting on are similar and/or the same as games already out on the 3ds (and/or games coming out on the 3ds), so the lineup will not be nearly as fresh and exciting as it was for the 3ds.

Although Mario and Donkey Kong are the big names and big sellers, I honestly think a mix of the "old standbys" along w games like Metroid, Zelda (new Zelda) and/or other less used Nintendo franchises would have done more to build excitement-

So far Nintendo has not shown much confidence in the Wii U- so it is difficult to expect 3rd parties and potential purchasers to be confident enough to invest in the console as well

Another big problem I see is - even if the late 2013 and early 2014 Wii U sales do well enough to interest 3rd parties again- most of them seem to have scaled back or emptied their Wii U development pipelines after the holidays at least- so even if sales do well and 3rd parties get interested again- how long will it take them to get decent to good games ready for the Wii U?

Does Nintendo have enough development resources to keep feeding the Wii U software after 1st Q 2014 and before 3rd parties can get raped up again?


The thing is the 3DS only had 2 significant games, being MK7 and SM3DL, whereas the Wii U will have SM3DW, Wii Fit U, DKCTF, Pikmin 3, W101, Sonic LW, and more, meaning a price cut in it's first year will not be nearly as necessary as it was for 3DS. Plus from what I've heard, they were making money on each 3DS sold before the cut, while they're losing money on each Wii U sold. They may want to wait until the Wii U breaks even before doing a big cut like with the 3DS. Also, there's already a good amount of 2014 games in MK8, SSB4, X, Bayo 2, Yoshi Yarn, and SMT x FE, with more to be announced later.