Iwata: "The Wii U isn't in good shape"

[TruckOSaurus]

reggin_bolas said:

TruckOSaurus said:

trestres said:
Sounds to me as if they are planning to ditch the wii u... in which case... I rather not spell the catastrophe that will be, but it may be their only option.
They can say goodbye to their credibility and probably their role as a hw maker. It may be the best time to sell my Wii U now

Ditching the Wii U would be the worst move they could ever make. Right now, the only people buying the console are dedicated Nintendo fans. They are the only customers that are still interested in Nintendo's hardware proposition. Scraping the Wii U so soon would be a huge affront to those faithful buyers and it might turn them off buying another Nintendo console ever again which would mean Nintendo would have effectively lost all their potential customers.

If you are a true fan you would certainly understand the need to dump the console. Plus your games would likely be backwards compatible with whatever system they design. You may even get a loyalty discount.

And I pose this question again; what else should they do? They are bleeding money on these things and keeping up a production line is a costly venture. 

I'm a fan because no matter how succesful the console Nintendo always managed to provide me with a great number of high quality games over the course of the console's lifetime. If I get screwed over, I'll be very wary of buying a new console.

About what they can do for the Wii U: first and foremost release games. Every game sold is a profit for them, also the more games available the more people who are on the fence will go ahead and buy the console. For the console itself, they have to find a way to sell it at a profit (easier said than done, I know).

All of this won't give them the level of success the PS4 and Xbox One are enjoying right now but it'll allow them to survive while they come up with their next offering for which they'll have hopefully learned from their mistakes.