Nintendo's reluctance to build new IP's is killing their brand

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Purple said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well... Thats arguable really cause granted wii sports was great but I doubt it is the reason why people bought a wii... The wii was marketed very nicely and the motion controls appealed to the casuals as well as its casual games... And not to mention the price point was very cheap compared to its competitors and it launched with Zelda! Vs the wiiU was marketed very poorly and not to mention the huge amount of confusion with the names and a whole other list of reasons why the wiiU is doing soo poorly but the 3ds is doing great by comparasion even though it doesnt have that many new IPs

If Wii Sports was the only new IP that sold well on the Wii I'd say you have a point. But just to make this clear, the vast majority of best selling games on the Wii were completely new IP. Motion controls by itself wasn't the reason people bought the Wii. It was the new games that came with it that made motion controls appealing.

The 3DS will probably end up losing 50% of the market of the original DS.  It is a flop of incredible proportions for Nintendo. A lack of new software, equivalent to what Brain Age, Nintendogs, Layton, Cooking Mama etc. did for the DS is definitely one of the causes of that collapse.

The name debate is such a non-factor in the Wii U's sales. It's a shocking name, sure, but if it was a desirable product people would want to learn about what it was regardless of what it was called. You can easily pick up a Wii U for $200 now so price is irrelevant.

Again... The market was full of casuals which aren't loyal... Motion controls was a new thing and it was marketed really aggressively towards casuals when it came to the wii so of course casual games will sell well (and not to mention a few of those games came free with the wii like wii sports) just like every other casual stuff... Sure, they were "new IPs" but most of those new IP's werent even good...

And of course the 3ds won't do as good as the DS considering its increasing competition against smartphones... When the DS came out, Phones couldn't play games nor did they have a proper market place like the App store or Google Play and you would be lucky to even get wifi on them so again a lot of casuals bought the DS...

And you can't buy a wiiU for $200 easily... You have to know where to look in order to buy it for $200 and not to mention, its mostly used... If I was a casual and I walk into a retail store like Walmart, I wont be able to buy a wiiU for $200

I think you are not understanding/underestimating how much influence the Casual's had with the wii/DS and now that they are gone, what you are basically left with are mostly people that want the games like Mario and etc as well as IPs that are actually good (new or old)... Both the 3ds and wiiU has a few new IPs coming out and they have new IPs that are already out but the ones that are out are selling poorly cause they are too niche and not very well known!