Satoru Iwata Cites Poor Basic Wii U Sales To Rule Out Price Cut Benefits

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justinian said:

Conegamer said:
I agree. People will jump on board if it's got the games to justify the price. But a few more will jump on with a price cut.

It still is a short-term solution though, a price cut. Whereas SW is long term.

Nintendo have money, so why not invest it in studios? It'd help avoid these droughts, for sure...

I have been arguing this for so freakin' long it's insane. How much longer will it take before they wakeup and realise that if they continue on their current path of releasing non-standard hardware developers will not be interested regardless of sales - as with the wii.

Open a new Nintendo studio, call it Nintendo Hardcore or whatever so people will know it is a Nintendo game but not the cartoony kids games. Not everyone is into Mario and Zelda. What sells a billion today wont necessarily sell more than a quater that tomorrow.

You would have thought that the success of the wii and it's first party titles would have pushed them to expand their genres into FPS, Driving Sims etc., They need their hands in more pies where software is concern.

I feel that if they backed up their older franchises with new IP's the sales of the older ones would go up more. It would give more variety to the console, and they could give Mario breaks more often, and make him sell more when it really needed to.