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JWeinCom on 29 January 2014
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Soundwave said:
JWeinCom said:
Soundwave said:
JWeinCom said:
Uhhhhh... That's weird... I guess I'll have to see it if I'm going to believe this. Not sure what the benefit of this is rather than integrating it with the Wii U. I guess we'll see more at E3, but my initial impression is that this is a bad idea.


People don't want to pay $300 for a Wii U. Nintendo likely figured it would be better just to make this a seperate platform. If it's a $25 health product, tying it to a $200+ console kills its appeal. 


Sounds like it will be more than $25.  Seems like an attempt to reattract the Wii crowd, but then it prevents those people from later investing in more traditional franchises like Mario Bros and Animal Crossing.  I don't see any advantage in fragmenting their fanbase like that.  Obviously I don't know enough to really judge, but it's hard to see the benefit of fragmenting your audience like that.

I don't think this is one product, probably will be a line of products. Maybe even things like cook books and vitamins/health shakes from Nintendo.

Forcing people to have to buy an expensive console to use say a generic Nintendo fitness program would only serve to limit its appeal. 


Limits the appeal of the fitness program, but increases the appeal of Nintendo products.  The huge surge in franchises like Mario Kart, NSMB, Animal Crossing, and so on came from those Nintendogs, Wii Sports, and Wii Fit fans.  Once the hardware was trojan horsed into their homes, it helped other series and Nintendo in general.  If the system is anything like a traditional console it will cut off the incentive to ever invest in Wii U hardware which will prevent any sort of spillover into Nintendo's broader portfolio.  If the casual fans wind up with this new hardware, and hardcore fans wind up with a PS4 or XBone, that leaves a very narrow window for the Wii U to appeal to.   I could be totally wrong since I'm basing this off very limited information, but it seems counterproductive to their core business.