Dunban67 said:
Kerotan said:
Dunban67 said:
Kerotan said:
I agree they can have a resurgence with profits and i'd say they will play it really safe with the production of their next console. So massive losses prob won't occur even if the Wii U 2 flops.
But in terms of the Wii U making a comeback absolutely not. In October it sold a mere 69k units. Japan it sold maybe 30k and the rest of the world was bad. SSB will give it a great boost but that's not hard when the baseline is so low. It will be like MK8. Then by Feb it will have gone back down. |
I hope they don't play it too safe w the next console - I think that has been one of the problems w the Wii u- they wanted to see if the market would commit to it before they were willing to - they have been playing catch up ever since
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they could make an over all profit on it though. If they had of gone full tilt and it cost a lot more to make they could have lost a shit load of money.
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I don't mean they should have made more expensive hardware as much as committing to the potential of the gamepad- yea it would have taken more upfront investment but that is the reality of the videogame home console market that exist today - it's not like it wa when Nintendo owned the market - in a way, the success they had w the Wii prob convinced themselves the market would comit to them first but that is. It likely to happen often and after the slow launch of the Wii u and its software ( as it was w the 3DS) I imagine most people will be willing to wait Till after launch to see how things go before committing to their next platforms
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at this point nintendo would need to personally fund publishers to make their 3rd party games for the next console. That will cost a ridiculous amount of money.
