Nintendo goes PS4!

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DevilRising said:
Another one of these, eh? And of course, the obligatory "Yeah I hope that happens!" people wander in. lol

It's not going to happen, and you're dealing purely in hyperbole and hypotheticals. Wii U's situation isn't great, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's also hardly "dire" yet, and it is also not the worst first year a home console has ever had, so no, it's not "setting records".

This has been repeated, by me and others with a rational mindset like me, over and over and over again on forums like this. But the problem Wii U has is LACK OF GAMES. That's it, that's all. It needs more games. Mario 3D World will certainly help. Pikmin gave it a small boost, Zelda gave it an even bigger boost. The price drop and bundles are helping sales, not in STAGGERING amounts, but they've improved. The holiday stretch should still see a decent finish to the year for Nintendo. And next year brings bigger "must have" titles like Smash, Mario Kart, and for some folks, X, as well as a slew of other nice exclusives. And if they can manage to ship the new Zelda by the end of the year, that would be another feather in the cap.

But for fuck's sake, enough of these "the sky is falling" threads. We all know 2013 has sucked donkey dick for Wii U, and we all know why. So let's kindly stop with these never-ending "Is Nintendo going to abandon Wii U/Put out a new console/Go portable only/Go Third Party" threads. They're honestly not productive, and it's just the same things said, over and over.

Is it because it makes your worst fears arise that you don't like these kinds of threads? That the WiiU goes bust is not outside the realm of possibilities at all. In fact, there's a good chance that happens by 2015. Nintendo has played a lot of cards already and none of them helped even remotely. If after the Holidays sales keep on struggling, considering everything they have done and that HW sales are bringing in losses (SW sales as well since they are abysmal) you will have to admit that WiiU being phased out soon will be one of the possibilities you'll have to deal with. Believe it or not, nothing lasts forever, in your pipe dream world perhaps you believe that Nintendo has a magic spell for happiness and wellness and that all of a sudden things will be alright. But reality hits hard and is hitting Nintendo VERY hard this time.

They will still have the handheld business to themselves, but they are on the verge of becoming irrelevant. The "Wii" brand is as weak as ever, thanks to the past 3 years of Nintendo misaction and abandonment with its home console.

The M&L Bundles have bombed, the Zelda WW bundle merely generated a small spike, Wii Party U has tanked. Nothing is working, and want it or not, shareholders will no doubt about taking their money away if they see the forecast is dark. Speaking of which, of those 9 million that were forecasted for the end of March, Nintendo wasn't able to sell even a million, so go figure if things aren't looking as terrible as ever.