Nintendo lowers forecast from 55 billion yen profit to 25 billion yen loss

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shikamaru317 said:
Looks like Nintendo was expecting much more than what they got. I feel like they can still save the Wii U, but the solution for saving it might not be to their liking. They need to drop the Gamepad bundle and offer it as an option instead, it adds almost $100 to the price of the system, by boxing a Pro controller instead they could cut at least $50 off the Wii U's price. A cheaper bundle with the Pro controller instead of the Gamepad plus Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart could turn the Wii U's sales around this year.

That really just wouldn't help.  Fragmenting your fanbase further is only going to make things worse.  At this point, they're going to have to ride with it.  Hopefully, they have some software in development that makes good use of the hardware.