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JGarret on 28 March 2014
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nitekrawler1285 said:
Soundwave said:

Well you have Wii Fit U, Wii Party U, Game & Wario, Mario & Sonic Winter Olympics Sochi, and you have Kinect Sports on XBox One coming out in a couple of weeks. My guess is all these are going to be sales duds, how many excuses are we going to keep making for all of them. 

Wii Sports is difficult to sequelize because adding different sports means you're adding more obscure ones that aren't going to be as popular as the basic tennis/golf/bowling trifecta that most people identify with. And if you try to add more modes/features to tennis/golf/bowling people complain that it's becoming too complicated. A lot of people are saying Wii Sports Club isn't as fun with the WM+ because it makes the games more complex. 

And yes, Nintendo Land was supposed to be the Wii U's equivalent to Wii Sports. Nintendo's kinda damned if they do, damned if they don't here, if they launched with Wii Sports 3, then people would be saying "oh what a terrible launch idea, why would anyone buy a new system to play the same game from 6 years ago, why didn't Nintendo come up with something really new?". 

I'm not going to make excuses for 8 year old games not selling a console.  They wont and to my knowledge never have.  Especially when those that are significantly worse versions of the same game they bought 8 years ago. Especially when its more expensive and less fun than it was before.  What basically amounts to shitty old ports isn't gonna sell any console. Wii U or otherwise. 

They could have done a new duck hunt/hunting sports, fishing, Kiting, Volley Ball, Cricket, Super Dodge Ball, Pilot Wings would probably work really well with the controller actually, Super Mario Paint Ball, Wii Martial Arts.  None of those adds major complexity over Wii Sports are off the top of my head and would be quick and familiar to get into.  Nintendo just didn't even try.  They just decided to port the exact same games and charge more on a more expensive system to boot.

A game focusing on a HUGE ass intimidating controller that needs explanation to set up and play any of the games is in no way captures the Spirit of or come close to being an equivalent of Wii Sports.  Even most figured Ninendo would launch with Wii Sports Extreme or some such.  They may call this console a Wii U but it in no way has the spirit of the Wii.    

 

Totally agree with you there.That right there is at the center of why the console is failing so miserably, it´s not just marketing, it´s not just the name of the system, it´s not just the drought, sure all of these add up, but there´s more to Nintendo´s failure with the system than those things... though I admit I´m still surprised it´s struggling to even reach GameCube numbers.