Soundwave said:
No offense eyeofcare but you're not much different from the same Nintendo apologists who through all of 2013 kept running the "Wii U sales will explode with Mario 3D World + Wind Waker HD + Wii Party + Wii Fit + Pikmin!!! Just wait and see!". That is offensive because you placing me in the same box as the rest that you don't agree with, its easy to do that and it is easy to accusse someone of being something that he in reality isn't, but I can only laugh at that with a grin. So Wii U sales din't rose after these games you say because you are wrong, Wii U sales "exploded" in Japan... We don't know about the rest and when we compared it how it sold couple of months ago, its not bad but you will force that is still bad.
You guys talked a big game and have nothing to back it up with. According to you... Of course... lol
The fact is the Wii U right now is not another GameCube ... it's selling considerably worse in North America. You are just looking at the present and the past, you don't look at the future to see things that might or will improve the sales. Gamecube had much better 3rd party support than Wii U and had very notable/big exclusives than Wii U has though some will disagree because they don't see the difference...
I don't buy the "it haz no games" excuse any more. It has several good games now, maybe the bounce shouldn't be astronomical, but surely we should be seeing a bigger bounce from a good 4 months of solid releases (Pikmin 3 to Zelda WWHD to Wii Party U to Wonderful 101 to Mario 3D World to Wii Sports Club and lots of decent multiplats and things like Just Dance 2014 and Skylanders and Sonic Lost World too). Not to mention a $50 price drop and more attractive bundles for the holidays and even a decent helping of marketing too (I saw a decent amount of Wii U commercials this November at least). I agree with you 100%... It will have a full effect next year or to be more correct we will see it the effects of those "moves" next year in full swing.
The needle should be moving *a lot* more right now than it is. Well sales rose from catastropical Q2/Q3 and it seems that Wii U almost matched YoY in Japan last week which is a really good news. Doing that or that does not mean that the effect of that or that move will be present from the start, one step at a time. You don't want to waste all your options to have a short burst in sales, you need to stimulate the market step by step to have more consistent sales.
Imagine having all PlayStation 3 exclusives that it had to be launched on PlayStation 3's launc and then not release any exclusives after that, it would die because there is no stimulation or incentive for the consumer to buy the system or recommend it if they knew that there won't be new releases in the future...
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