What's the point of no return for WiiU?

[oniyide]

zorg1000 said:

oniyide said:

zorg1000 said:

oniyide said:
OT i picked other because people will believe what they want and keep moving goalposts. The new thing is well 2013 was a weak year, funny no one was saying that in 2012. Lego City, Rayman, Sonic, Mario, Pikmin, W101 were all supposed to be big guns.

I dont think most people were saying those were all big guns but if most werent delayed than it could have given Wii U a consistant and solid exclusive release schedule, its possible Wii U could have had one exclusive per month in 2013.

Jan-Wii Fit U

Feb-Rayman Legends

Mar-Lego City Undercover

April-Pikmin 3

May-Wondeful 101

June-Game & Wario

July-New Super Luigi U

Aug-Wii Party U

Sep-Wind Waker HD

Oct-Sonic Lost World

Nov-Super Mario 3D World

Dec-Mario & Sonic Olympics

I admit thats not the greatest line up but it would have given at least some momentum throughout the year and its likely Nintendo would have actually advertised it since there were exclusive games coming every month. Instead it had 2 exclusives in the first 6 months of the year with zero advertising and the release schedule/advertising didnt pick up until the last few months of the year.

big guns might have been the wrong choice of words, but people were saying that they were going to help the WIi U, it didnt.

Well id say they helped, if those games didnt come out then Wii U holiday would have probably been at Vita levels or worse. And I believe they would have helped more with advertising and spaced out the releases. With the line up I posted and advertising, I think 7-8m would have been possible at this point instead of 5-5.5m like it is now but sadly we will never know how well it would have done in 2013 if Nintendo didnt severely fuck things up.

i disagree. They werent going to get 7-8mil because the truth is people dont want the WIi U in those numbers. Your list isnt to off from what actually happened, so im confused why it woudl have made that much of a difference.

Wii Fit U, wasnt or will never be as close to popular as the original, even then the price would have kept people away as they werent going to pay for that.

Rayman I dont know why people swear this was going to do anything. Rayman hasnt been big since PS1, the preorders before prove this. Sure it getting delayed didnt help. but it was nt going to do that much

Lego City, probably bigger than Rayman and that didnt do much. And the 3ds version ate into sales.

Pikmin 3 again another series that people hype up, this doesnt put up huge numbers or move consoles. whether it would have released earlier is irrelevant.

W101 would have done better sure. still wasnt going ot move consoles

Game & Wario no one cared

pretty much besides 3d world these games are not console movers, hell there not even games that will move that much copies on their own at least not intially.