The Wii U IS NOT Doomed.

[Pillow]

Wii U is not doomed until Nintendo themselves call it a failure.

The only console they discontinued after a year was the VB which sold 770k, Wii U is at 4M after a year.
Gamecube had mediocre sales, and yet it was supported until 2006 (discontinued in 2007) AND turned out a profit with software sales. That console sold only 4M units in Japan, and looking at Wii U, it's already 1/4 of those sales without big hitters like Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, the next big MH HD....
Same thing for Pal regions... (NA is the only region lagging behind).
Why would they discontinue a console that has the potential to make profit? Nintendo is known to use very little resources in game development and get huge sales aka huge profit, which is the most important thing when talking about success in the gaming industry. You can have 100M HW on the market, if your games can't sell that's the real problem.
They know they can sell millions of Super Mario 3D World, Smash Bros, Mario Kart etc...

The worst thing they could do is to stop making games for it, which is obviously not the case with all the exclusives coming out next year + unannounced games, there is plenty of $$$ to make.

And making a new console to ''compete'' graphically with the other 2 will just sink them more and more, what is the point in spending millions upon millions of Yens with something that will most likely flop?
Nintendo will search for new experiences before looking at the actual hardware, that's how they work: they distinguish themselves. By marketing a unique image of both unique gameplay and variety of games, they were able to sell Wiis, and will be able to sell Wii Us if they can do the same thing again.


Wii U will get supported until 2017 at the very least, seems unbelievable right? People don't care about hardware, when they go in-store they look at what games are available and will choose accordingly. Just because the hype for the Ps4 and X1 is through the roof on the internet doesn't actually reveal the future. What actual fact shows that the PS4 will be glorious or X1? Preorders made by Sony hardcore fans? How about after all the hardcore fans have got their consoles? What will be left to get? ''Casuals''? PS3 users? Sure, but how are you going to convince them? You will need more than pretty graphics to justify your price tag, you have to show how different the gaming experience is between the 2 consoles.

Why can't people on forums not believe that their console HAS A CHANCE of failing? because they have better hardware? ha....ha...ha... Stop being a fanboy and learn to read between the lines.

No one can predict the future, even the vg analysts. The market is too unpredictable, and who knows what secret plan Nintendo has up their sleeves?

Believing is one thing. Knowing is another.