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fatslob-:O on 12 December 2013
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superhippy420 said:
fatslob-:O said:
Incubi said:
It looks like WiiU needs to be rebranded and redesigned asap like Nintendo DS -> DS Lite.

You might say there is a problem when 3rd parties fail to sell on WiiU, but when even 1st party games fail to sell, its time for drastic measures.

Do any of you believe EA will come back in 2014? Do you think UbiSoft and Activision will drop support in 2014? It looks like the answer is no and yes.

So this means Nintendo 1st and 2nd parties will have to carry the entire system on its back in 2014. I really cant see that being even remotely possible.

So what can Nintendo do? What should it do? What options do they have?

Nintendo is pretty much trapped with the WII U. It's almost fated to do worse than the gamecube. (Which is extremely frightening. It'll be lucky to manage 15 million for lifetime sales afterall that mismanagement.)

There's really nothing they can do unless they start by abandoning the WII U at early 2015 and get a new console out in the holidays but this time they have to stop with the gamecube/dreamcast strategy and start by using blue ocean WII. 

The biggest thing they need to do is hope that they are right about software moving hardware.  In terms of 3DS vs. Vita that has been 100% true, but the console market is a different animal.  If Kart / Smash / DK / Bayonetta / Zelda / X / and atleast 2 other titles, come out in 2014 then the Wii U will be just fine, but if these things start getting delayed they are screwed.   I keep seeing Gamecube comparisons but you guys forget that it launched last, was only a graphic upgrade, and was aimed directly at the core gamer.   The only thing similar are sales, but the situations surrounding them are completly different.

Getting wrong software isn't going to help the WII U. Bayonetta and X are irrelevant titles that won't move the WII U. You had better hope that nintendo won't pull another toon zelda otherwise it will pretty much be irrelevant in trying to move a massive amount of consoles. The gamecube didn't launch last. It was the xbox who launched last. The gamecube came a month before in japan. A console launching first means nothing if it keeps getting more irrelevant games. BTW the WII U is a system for hardcore gamers.