Counter To All The Negative Wii U Threads In 1 Place

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KingdomHeartsFan said:

1. Nintendo to discontinue the Wii U:  This is never gonna happen and anyone that things it will obviously was not around when Sega left the hardware bussiness.  It makes no sense for Nintendo to drop the Wii u because they'd lose all trust from the consumer and no one would buy their next system also Nintendo has way more than enough money to whether the storm of one bad console, especially considering they have another console, the 3DS, selling amazing.  Also ITS ONLY BEEN 1 YEAR and people are already saying they are gonna drop support, oh ya just ignore the Wii U's 2014 lineup destroys the PS4's and X1's.

2. Wii U will sell less than the Gamecube:  I can't believe anyone actually thinks this, but lets think about this logically.  The Wii U managed to sell 4m units in 1 year with terrible first party support, now the Gamecube only managed to sell 21m units...anyone that thinks the Wii U won't easily reach 21m is crazy.  Nintendo is releasing a huge lineup of first party games next year and Nintendo tends to save 1 or 2 games to reveal at E3 and release for holiday season, this year will probably be Zelda U or Miyamoto's new IP or both, add those to SSB, MK8, X, Bayonetta 2, Yoshi Yarn, Donkey Kong TF, and SMT x FE anyone that thinks the Wii U will sell less than 10m next year, which is half the total GC sales, is crazy.  If it can sell 4m in this year with that terrible support it can easily sell 10m next year with that huge lineup.

3. Wii U will be a failure:  So the Wii U won't manage to sell the numbers that the PS4 and X1 will I think we can all agree on that, but IT DOESN'T NEED TO.  Nintendo does not have as much invested into the Wii U as Sony and Microsoft have in the PS4 and X1, they don't have a billion servers or w/e so they don't need to sell as much units to be a success.  I'd say if they manage to sell 30-40m Wii U's they can easily pull a profit off it and it would be considered a success for them.  

So are we done with all these dumbass threads?

 

1. I agree so much in the fact that Nintendo will eek out a generation (Read 5 years) out of the Wii U. But it's going to be a tough 5 years. Even with that line up do in 2014.

 

2. Thinking about it further I think the Wii U will finish above the Gamecube resting (I am changing my tune here) to about 30-35 million. Still I don't see the Wii U selling 10 million next year. But 6-8 million would be a reasonable guess.  My thinking on this is as the years go by. The Wii U will go up in sales do to price point, changes Nintendo will make, and total game library. 

 

3. Depends on your definition of failure really. If it's making a profit for Nintendo. Then no it's not going to be a failure. Nintendo will make profit off of it. If it's comparing Wii to Wii U sells.. then yeah total failure. If you talking total sells compared to the competition this gen. Well depends. PS4 will have all the fire. But Wii U will have plenty to get it by. XBOX One will to.. the problem is. I am thinking it's going to a repeat of the PS2 era/ Where XBOX One and Wii U is in a tight race for second. But this time Nintendo wins. edging out the XBOX ONE.