PattonFiend said:
zorg1000 said:
Wii U is currently struggling at its $299 price point, for $100-200 less u can get a PS3/360/Wii which have much bigger libraries and for $100-200 more u can get PS4/One which are much more powerful, have better 3rd party support, better online/mulitmedia features and all the hype in the world. Its kinda stuck in the middle, late adopters/casuals/families/people on tight budgets will choose 7th gen consoles and the early adopters/hardcore/techies/people with disposable income will choose PS4/One. One way to help fix this problem is to get the price down sooner rather than later. At $199 its much closer to 7th gen consoles and may be able to sway those who would regularly be late adopters and would be 40-50% the cost of Its fellow 8th gen consoles which could make it a nice secondary console to those who own them. The big problem is that the last time we heard from Nintendo, the Wii U was still selling at a loss meaning at $199 they would be losing alot of money. They have also stated that getting the manufacturing cost down was a big goal of theres so I wouldnt be surprised to see a redesign this year that is less expensive to manufacture. Im not sure what exactly they would have to do to accomplish this but I think a smaller/sleeker Gamepad that costs less to build would help alot, maybe about the size of the Vita. Lets say sometime in October they release the Wii U redesign bundled with Mario Kart 8 (will be about 6 months old by then) for $199, how well would this sell? |
The Wii U is fine just how it is, if you owned one, you would know that.
Plex in 1080p HD through the web browser playing practically every file-format known to man, NintendoTVii and it's stellar sports community, a slew of Rated-M games (since that is all anyone cares about anymore,) more exclusives coming in 2014 then both other home major home consoles combined, free online, Miiverse, 7 different control schemes including Mayflash Gamecube adapter, homebrew and a debian-based linux OS currently being worked on, and it's cheaper.
I feel sorry for you for being so uneducated and worthless at researching...
More opinions from non-gamers who only own one system and have no idea what they are talking about...
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That's all well and good, but all of that means nothing if the thing isn't selling. Clearly people, rightly or wrongly, don't think that the WIi U is a good value at the current price. Nintendo either needs to change the price or change the perception of the system.
