Why can't the U just be a late bloomer?

[brute]

BeElite said:

brute said:
While I don't believe that WiiU will do as much of a turnaround as PS3, here is what is has going more so than Gamecube that can help it be a "late bloomer".

- GameCube went down to 100$ during the same timeframe as WiiU is now, so WiiU has more space there that can cause a bit more of sales.
- Nintendo seems to be doing a lot of bundles with WiiU which are helping it, while with GameCube it didn't have as many as WiiU.
- Console revision, Nintendo seems to be doing more SKU's now, GameCube only had one, Nintendo had two Wii's, more for DS, and even 3DS got a "new" model, I believe we will see more revision for the WiiU aswell, I believe we might have a Gamepad-less SKU near the end of it's live, just so Ninty can squeeze out as much profit as possible from this gen.

While I don't see it hitting 50 mil, unless amibo or something else really become a huge craze, I believe it can sell around N64's level.

And PS2 was already 170 and few months after GC hit 99 the xbox hit 150.   Lets not pretand GC price was such a big advantage and that wiiu with a cut can do some grand sales. wii Us price advantge is similar to what the GC had.

U is already half the price of its comp and its failing sales wise, stores around me cant get rid of certain bundles for 230.   I got my MBosU bundle for 250.

ninteophiles are quite ardent in their belief wiiu will never rid of the pad.  

Ps2 was 80 dollars more than GC, and Xbox went down to 150 the next year. But I was comparing GC with WiiU in terms of sales, WiiU has more room to wiggle a bit, also it could be seen as a better secondary console than the GC was, as GC was competing with Xbox as a secondary console, while this gen it will mostly be Sony/Nintendo or Microsoft/Nintendo for dual console owners as opposed to Sony/Microsoft like it could have been in Gen 6.

And how is WiiU half the price when it sells for 299$ and the PS4 sells for 399? Sure there are retailer deals, but that can also be said for PS4 aswell.

And I'm not a "Ninteophile" as you say, I love Nintendo but im also a multi-console owner and just gave my two cents, I believe that if there ever will be a gamepad-less WiiU it will come very late and only sell to make profit, like Wii Mini, but should help a bit in sales.

Also WiiU has Japan going for it a bit more than GC did, and it could have a bit of a longer lifespan than GC, considering it was the first one out this time.