Nintendo won't hit their forecasts. How did they get them so wrong?

[Cheebee]

Seece said:

Cheebee said:

Seece said:

Cheebee said:
Well, tbh they did delay pretty much every single Wii U game they had for months and months and months. Perhaps when they gave those initial forecasts, they still expected to ship everything on time. That would've made a big difference.

What have they delayed into next FY?

DK and Wii Fit U are before March.

Not next fiscal year, I said nothing about that - just delayed for months and months, period. As seen last year, having a drought from the start of the year until late summer pretty much kills of any and all momentum. Doesn't need to be delayed into the next fical year at all; 8 months or so should do pretty nicely if you intend to have your sales come to a full stop. Nobody's buying a system with no content; if PS4 wouldn't get any games from now until august/september, it wouldn't sell, either.

Fair enough, so you think they're sales forever lost?

PS3 sold relatively well (like 9m first full year) with virtually no games, far less than WiiU has got for sure.

Well that's very hard to say, obviously. I'm pretty sure some of those sales will be lost forever, same how I'm pretty sure some people who intended to get a Wii U but held off will buy one once more games they want release. Time will tell, I guess, but imo it's pretty clear that last year's crazy software drought has done immense damage to Wii U and its image.

As for the PS3 comparison, yeah it sold pretty well, but I guess that had more to do with the fact that it was coming right after the immensely successful PS2 (Wii U came after Wii had been pretty dead for a long time), as well as because it was a cheap bluray player, perhaps. Also, Wii U's gotten abandoned by virtually every developer/publisher, save for a few big titles here and there; I won't think PS3 ever was.