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Soundwave on 16 January 2014
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

What's so uninviting about the Wii U? It works with every Wii accessorie and gives casuals a touchscreen/DS type controller as well. Everyone and their grandma already has Wiimotes sitting around the house so including it again is just redundant. 

The Wii U could come with any type of controller, there's no point in a person paying $200-$300 to play Just Dance when they can already play it on their existing Wii just fine. 

That's one of the problems with the casual audience is there's little/no incentive to upgrade hardware as the games they want to play, play just fine on the system they already own. 

It's no upgrade to the Wii. There is no better motion controller. It's Nintendo asking people to pay $300 for a new console, because some brats wanted to play Assassin's Creed on a Nintendo console.

Offer a better controller, launch with at least one game to demonstrate that controller. Show that you have more motion-controlled games in the pipeline. Make it the message that you need the new console, because that kind of precision and online features were not possible on the Wii. Naturally, Just Dance isn't going to sell that console, because it's going to be cross-gen. But that's what you have first party software for.

There is no lack of intent to buy new consoles among those consumers, there is a lack of incentive given by Nintendo. The Wii U is so incredibly boring by design that it might as well not exist.

Even if Nintendo made another system based around motion control ... why do I need that if all I want to do is play Just Dance?

$20 and I can play it on my Wii. 

That was always going to be a major, major problem for Nintendo. 

Casuals do not go running to new hardware just because its ... new or even an "upgrade". They're not interested in "upgrades", they simply want the simple fun waggle/waving/dancing/singing fun once in a while, and the Wii already gives them that. 

My sister is a Just Dance fanatic, I remember I was explaining to her the difference between Wii Motion Plus and the regular Wiimote and why WM+ is better, and I might as well have been speaking an alien language, all she wanted to know is whether or not she could play Just Dance. This audience doesn't care about upgrading.