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Soundwave on 19 November 2013
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johnlucas said:
Frequency said:

You are very much deluded, if you think the delay of japanese launch until february is a 'big mistake' you clearly have poor understanding of japanese culture, when it launches here it will do extremely well, when console preorders were opened they were filled entirely, in less time than anywhere else it was launching.

 

But dont take my word for it, you will see if for yourself in february.

Nintendos home console for this generation is destined for last place, its clear from nintendos actions that they plan to stick with handhelds and move in to the casual mobile market, so the focus on whats left of the wiiu is going to shift to a point where its all but abandoned, just like many a nintendo home console before it.

 

But again, dont take my word for it, you will see it yourself over the next few months.

 

Nintendo will always be relevant in videogames, but the wii was basically the last stand in the livingroom, i'll be genuinelu surprised if they make another home console.

I wouldn't take much stock in pre-orders. That's launch stuff.

3DS was the most pre-ordered console in Amazon UK history. 3DS pre-orders DOUBLED amount of pre-orders Wii had.
Amazon Preorders Make the 3DS King of the Jungle
3DS Preorder Number Doubled the Wii's Preorders

What happened afterwards? It dragged. I don't take launch period stuff that seriously.
It's what you do in the long term that makes a console successful not just the short term introductory period.

Study videogame history in depth to understand my point of view.
Sony & Microsoft will leave this game business before Nintendo will.
You can take that to the bank.
John Lucas

P.S.: No such thing as 'casuals'. That's a bad framework that'll lead you to misreading the business.

I have four friends and two female cousins that have never bought a game console, and I never thought any of them ever would. They all bought a Wii. They are casual gamers (sorry if you can't handle that labelling). Just FYI, none of them have any interest in Wii U even when I explained to them what it was. 

Just because Nintendo pioneered the modern console gaming business doesn't mean they're automatically entitled to it just "because they're Nintendo". There's no free lunch in this business if you want market share you damn well have to earn it by putting in WORK, right now Nintendo is like that student who thinks just by showing up to class and whining to the teacher that they should be given a good grade. They're not putting in the WORK. Their marketing is sh*t so far this gen. Their software output thus far sucks. They are not taking any bold risks with the software. The hardware doesn't have a killer hook to it (six years of R&D and the best thing they could come up with was a giant sized DS bottom half?).

Fact is they've gotten their rear ends spanked in 2 of the last 3 console generations by Sony, and this one is looking a lot like 3 out of 4, because Sony looks like they learned their lessons from last gen and actually applied them this time.