3DS is cannibalizing Wii U

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Soundwave said:

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leyendax69 said:

Nintendo is cannibalizing wii u -_- they just don't know how home console market works, every console since the SNES has sold less, wii was a miracle.

Wii wasn't a miracle, it was a conscious and brilliant insight into the market; insight they completely failed to exercise with Wii U.

Wii U is the antithesis of the Wii; the Wii's success was due to its recognition of a changing market, Wii U's failure is due to its lack of recognition of a changing market.

The whole point of the Wii was: do something that hasn't been done before, break new ground. The Wii U is just "try the same strategy that worked last time."

I do agree however that Nintendo is cannibalizing Wii U.

I'm sure Nintendo would have loved to repeat the Wii's success. It's part of the reason the Wii U is compromised the way it is, because they didn't want to move too far away from the success of the Wii. 

This is not an insight problem. 

It's a reality problem -- you can't expect your R&D to come up with an idea like the Wiimote every 5 years. It's impossible. It's like winning big in Vegas ... can you do it? Sure. Is that a sound financial strategy for paying your bills every month? Hell no. 

Their R&D simply could not come up with something as compelling as the Wiimote this time around, and honestly the whole "OMG! I have to buy that console because it has a new controller" thing itself may becoming passe as Kinect is not helping the XBox One at all either. 

Nintendo hit at the exact right time with the Wiimote with the exact right idea, but it's not a repeatable formula because once the moment is over, tons of variables change.

But the root success of the Wii Remote was reading the market, detecting an opportunity, and seizing it. With Wii U they showed no such understanding of the market; they just assumed it hadn't changed since 2006, while with the Wii they recognized that it had changed.