| trestres said: Wii U is a zombie, I can confirm it just by taking a look at its upcoming releases. In other words, the most lamentable release schedule in the entire history. Far worse than that of Wii's last years. As Iwata would say: Please take a look http://dengekionline.com/soft/schedule/ select WiiU and start crying. Please understand. Then make yourself a favour and check the PS3 release schedule. For a soon to be replaced console, the lineup is STELLAR. Hence, the reason why PS3 is still selling a good amount of consoles and why the Wii U is dying as days go by. Nintendo should be FUCKING ashamed. No 3rd party will ever make a game for their home consoles again. Simply having MK8 and SSB4 and nothing else for 12 months will not save the console. PS4 will take over Japan. Why? Just because 3rd parties will be all over it. Wii U will be dead. Why? Because the console has actually no games and has about nothing announced for people to look forwards to. Why would anyone choose a Wii U over a PS4? There is absolutely no reason. Unless you are OK by playing Nintendo games and 3 to 4 a year (assuming you like those 4 games) |
That's cold.. but there is a lot of truth in what you said. For a while now I have been thinking that the only people who will buy the wii u are Nintendo diehard fans. Considering the price and the amount of time it has been on the market many of those fans are still not showing up.
I honestly don't think MK8 and SSB will shift the number of consoles that many fans are dreaming about. Same as Wii Fit U. The Wii sold those games last gen. People wanted a Wii and they wanted games to play on it so they snatched them up.
Now no one wants a Wii U. The question is how many people that bought those games last time around still have enough interest in them to buy a wii u just to play them. I fear not many. Time will tell.
Iwata is clueless as what to do or rather, needs more time to come up with a solution so is just throwing all kinds of ideas out there to stay relevant.
I would have argued against it long and hard a month or so back but now I am thinking it is best to cut their losses and think of scrapping the wii u. Build a better system based on it to reduce cost and developement issues with devs and move on.
Wait and see how the titles being released over the next few months perform and make a decision. Which ever road they choose is a rough one. I wish them all luck.
