| Purple said: I think so long as they released the games they had already announced for the Wii U I would forgive them for dropping support. They could sweeten the deal by giving away some virtual console titles. The console is a failure and it's starting to cause irreperable damage to the brand in the eyes of consumers, third parties and shareholders. As a Nintendo fan I think I'd rather they pulled the plug now and came up with ways to fix those relationships rather than further isolate themselves for the next four years. |
First of all, cutting support so early in the generation, before releasing any major software, would be an incredibly stupid move businesswise.
A large part of the reason for the Wii U's low sales is that Nintendo has only released a handful of games so far; and these do not include any flagship titles of any of their traditional major brands. In fact, most of these they haven't even shown yet. It was poor planning on Nintendo's part. Wii year 1 had a flagship[ Zelda, Mario, and Metroid title released; 17 new first party games total. Wii U year 1 has only had three new titles: Nintendo Land, Mario 2D U, and Pikmin; all other releases have been expansions or remakes.
What if they cut support for the 3DS before releasing Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, and Pokemon? People were calling it a flop before that as well - but in retrospect, how stupid of a decision would that have been?
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