blublibla said:
TwoThreeSoFly said:
It is a combo of things. From the fact that they built up this tremendous image in the regular wii which is still available and rather cheap. It is because the wii u don't really have its own identity or one that is bringing in the original wii owners and making them want to up grade. It could also be the fact that many wii owners were new to gaming and now are looking to more powerful systems like the ps4 and xbox one.
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1. No. The Wii is not "still selling" unline the PS3 and X360, the sales are down 20,000 a week because nobody is interested in it anymore. The problem is that, they aren't interested by the Wii U either. If anything, the Wii won this generation by numbers, and in 2006 it brought the best model and innovation, but because of the weak hardware it quickly became obsolete and the numerous cheap/bad games releases, it ended up loosing image
2. Maybe. I believe that the maturation of the casual public over 6 years and the fact that people are aiming toward more "spectacular" entertainment (when there's recession, people turn to fictions and drugs...), make it so that people want to have a big screen with a powerful console or PC.
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I didn't say that the amount of units it's moving now is huge, my point was that the wii did very well because Nintendo was able to get even non traditional gamers to buy it. They have failed to do that with the wii u and I think a lot of it is that there is just not that much novelty in a touch screen. Maybe 10 years ago but "touch" is so common because of the likes of apple, Samsung, amazon, and Barnes and noble; all of which i am sure many Americans own at least one product. We have this argument of which of the big 3 has the most hardcore gamers. And even argue over the definition of what that means but I will say that Microsoft and Sony probably have the most core gamers who are able to make purchases for themselves and tend to view gaming as a hobby. I am not saying that Nintendo doesn't have a core audience what I will say is that the generation will show just how loyal to gaming that audience truly is.
