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chakkra on 12 November 2013
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Soundwave said:
chakkra said:
DialgaMarine said:
They really should, though. We're obviously going to have to wait and see just how much better the PS4 does, but continuing to invest in the Wii-U could end up backfiring really bad for Nintendo. They clearly have a much stronger stake in the portable market, and that's where they should devote their resources. It'll just be so much more financially beneficial for them in the long run. They're losing so much money on the Wii-U as is, and nobody's really buying the system. Nintendo themselves even admitted it's not a worthy successor to the Wii. Just let it go and focus on making a new handheld to bring to the market down the road.

I respectfully disagree with that.

The Wii U has already settled at over 60K per week, and with the combination of price cut-bundles-upcoming games I don't see any reason why it would go down from there (In fact, I truly believe it will just go up) throughout 2014. Now, that may not be much, but atleast it guarantees that it will sell 3x as much as it did in 2013 (and I'm being conservative here).

But the real boost for the Wii U will come the moment Sony and Microsoft decide to retire their current consoles, and the Wii U is left as the only sub $300 console in the market. People here usually underestimate the power of price; they seem to forget that there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who just CANNOT afford to go for the top high end of the spectrum. It is also good to take into account that every year there are hundreds of thousands of new kid-gamers and it is a lot easier for their parents to shell $200-300 on their first console.


The problem with this is the PS3/360 clean up with the "budget parent looking to buy his kid their first console" crowd. 

The PS3 is even cheaper, has far more games, and tons of $19.99 LEGO Harry Potter/Star Wars/Indiana Jones/Batman/etc. etc. etc. littering every Best Buy. 

The Wii U at $299.99 is compartaively expensive, you can get a PS3 for a $100 less and it has far more cheapo $20 games. Kids love video games no matter what, they'll be happy with whatever until they reach age 11-13, and everything they buy "must be cool, get away from me mom, jeez, my friends almost saw you that time, I'm not a little kid anymore" sorta thing. 


That maybe a reality today; but I was actually talking about the moment when the PS3 and 360 dissapear from the market, and the Wii U is left alone in that price range. You know, kinda like what happened with the original Xbox-PS2 and the Wii. Of course, I'm not saying the Wii U will have anywhere near the success the Wii had, but being alone in its price range will definitely boost its sales.