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HylianSwordsman on 28 May 2014
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nitekrawler1285 said:
spurgeonryan said:
nitekrawler1285 said:
Saw this coming a mile away. People claimed it was outrageous to think the X1 and all it's 3rd party support would flounder in the market as it currently does.


Really? You knew that a once dominant console was going to end up like this?  Grasping at a price cut and some heavy hitting games to bring its sales up. Did you also see the Wii U being in the position it is in? Or did you think it would do decent. Especially since the Wii was so big.

The moment I saw the controller I knew that Wii U would be a stinker.  

And what did you think the moment you saw the Wii controller? Why didn't you think that would stink? You probably did. What did you think the moment you saw the DS? Did you think that one would stink? I hope not, because it did even better. And guess which one the Wii U is more like? The DS. There's no predicting skills here. The Wii U failed for the same reasons the Wii and DS succeeded. Nintendo failed/succeeded to convince people that their latest weird device was the next great way to play games. Why'd they succeed with Wii and DS and not with Wii U? It seems pretty obvious to me that it's marketing. Which do you, as the average consumer, want to buy? The one with the ad with the catchy Japanese music and two Japanese guys bowing to you and saying "Wii would like to play" and people using the controller and having fun playing in a way no one's really seen before, or the one with the dubstep and a few pictures of the console with no illustration of why the controller is special? You knew nothing ahead of time, anymore than you did last generation. The Wii U's problem is mainly marketing, a difficult but not impossible problem to fix. The Xbone's problem is bad PR, a difficult but not impossible problem to fix. PS4 on the other hand is winning due to insane brand power, but not even that will save it if Sony doesn't start delivering on games, otherwise people will drop it like they dropped the Wii as soon as Nintendo stopped bringing the games back in 2011.