| Miguel_Zorro said: Let's look at your 3 points. 1. You said Nintendo will "never" discontinue the Wii U. Obviously that's not true, because they will discontinue it some day. So I'll assume you meant they won't discontinue it early. I'm pretty sure the Wii U will be discontinued before, say ,the PS4. If you meant something different by this, please say so. I do, however, agree with your claim that Nintendo has money to weather the storm of one bad console. 2. You said Wii U will easily sell more than the Gamecube. I'm not convinced. It might, it might not. You then said that "anyone who thinks the Wii U will sell less than 10m next year.. is crazy". It's going to be hard pressed to sell more than 10m next year. Although if they deliver the software, I might be one of those +/- 10 million. 3. "Wii U will be a failure" - You say it won't be. I think failure is a subjective term. They'll eek on a variable profit because of software sales, but I don't think they'll make much money on it. I don't know how much they spent on development of the console. Since you agree that it won't lead the generation is unit sales, we don't need to discuss that definition of success. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Nintendo guy too. I've owned almost all of their consoles, from the NES to the Wii. But I'm realistic about the Wii U. I don't love what Nintendo did with it, and I think we need to challenge Nintendo to do better. I also just like to make predictions, regardless of my preferences - and it's difficult to prevent good fortune for the Wii U. |
Ya when I said they wouldn't cut support I meant they would support it for the average length that a Nintendo console is supported, I don't think it will be supported as long as the PS4.
With them coming out with their biggest system sellers all in one year (considering Zelda U comes out, even if it doesn't there's still a lot of games) its basically the same strategy they used for the 3DS where they bombard people with must have exclusive over and over and it shifts people over to their console. I know people think, just because it happened with the 3DS doesn't mean it will happen for a home console, but I think it will. Also they are the only next gen console coming out with exclusive games targeted at the Japanese market in 2014 (correct me if I'm wrong) so I can see them picking up traction in Japan.
Ya when I said it won't be a failure is just that it makes Nintendo money, not that it sells the most or anything like that.
