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curl-6 on 26 September 2013
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Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

Software sells hardware; the Wii U desperately needs major games to do well this holiday.

This "delay delay delay" horseshit is exactly what got the Wii U in its atrocious current state. You'd think Nintendo would learn their lesson, but I can only imagine everyone involved in marketing the Wii U is currently suffering from Absolute Idiocy Syndrome.


I think "software sells hardware" is kind of a false misnomer to be honest. Every system eventually has lots of games to plays and even a fair amount of good quality ones. There has to be more factors to it than that. 

The Playstation/XBox audience is such that they simply like games that tend not to be popular on Nintendo platforms or aren't on Nintendo platforms at all (or anything equivalent). 

And early adopters tend to be the most loyal of any fan base, you're not going to stop any one of those PS4/XB1 early adopters even if you had all the Mario games in the world. 

To get the attention of those people, you would need to have something like Destiny or Titanfall exclusive for Wii U this fall, not Donkey Kong Country and another Mario game. 

I don't believe that gamers fall so neatly into separate categories. Many people enjoy both platformers and shooters, both Nintendo and non-Nintendo games.