3DS is cannibalizing Wii U

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Einsam_Delphin said:

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Einsam_Delphin said:

To break the ongoing trend of the latest Nintendo home console selling worse than all previous Nintendo consoles, it's gonna take more than just the usual things that happen during a console cycle (more games, price cuts, etc.), that's what the Wii has shown with it's motion controls and Wii Sports/Fit/etc breaking away it from the norm.

Looking as it as one overriding decline is a mistake, because it doesn't happen for the same reason each time. Wii U's a decline for a different reason than the N64, for instance. 

It can broken rather easily if they started making smarter choices with their software and overall management. A $200/$250 Wii U with Kart and Smash would sell great over the holiday season with the right push, a dark HD Zelda would hook the hardcore, etc.

I don't disagree that there are some different reasons for each systems decline, but what I'm getting at is how Mario Kart, Smash Bros., Zelda, etc., along with price cuts, remodels, and so ons never helped any other system outsell it's predecessor, and there's evidence that shows this'll be the case again with Wii U. We've already had SM3DW + other games + price cut + bundles + advertising + holidays, yet Wii U is still selling worse than Gamecube. While it's still not 100% impossible for MK8 n company to cause a turnaround, it's just really not likely unfortunately.

Things turning out differently on different consoles, in different circumstances, don't prove it won't work on Wii U.

Wii U is still more expensive now than the Gamecube was at launch, and lacks Smash Bros which GCN had by this point in its life. And what "advertising"? It's all either awful or non-existent.