| tak13 said: Don't use the word attacking,I wasn't agressive!Just shocked from the unjust mistake! We have to wait for the price cuts,if it still perfoms bad,then doomed! We can be optimistic,as I aforesaid gc sold 13m in its first two years,with two consecutive price cuts of 50$ and 50$ respectively,the 60% of its total sales(the probable reason why it dominates wii u)!Why wii u with 250$ price in 2015 and 200$ price in 2016 wouldn't sell more than its first two years? I know,you will tell me that it wouldn't and I will understand it! I might be criticized for this argument but I will use it!Windows 8/8.1 reached two years in the market with a bad perfromance,seeing small growth and some drops,completely doomed from analysts and journalists! All of a sudden,it jumped by 7% in november reaching 18% marketshare,while previously it was falling,forcing ms to announce windows 10!But finally absorbed a 7% of the xp users and it was first time that windows 7 got almost nothing from xp share and win8.1/8 got the lion's share! Who would expect the unbelievable resurgance of windows8.1/8 which put the release date of windows 10 8 months later!Some great moves from ms helped windows8.1/8,something that even ms didn't expect to happen,that's why it was hasty to announce windows 10... Such a great move in wii u case is two consecutive brave price cuts! |
First, your windows argument is a bad one. Simply because the thing about windows is that no one really has a choice. Everyone buying a laptop in the past 2 years automatically is buying into windows 8. Anyone trying to buy a new OS for their PC is automatically buying into windows 8. There isn't a single other OS that is directly competing with windows. You can't just walk into a store and buy a OSX and install it on your laptop at home without some serious tech savvy.
Now back to the wiiU. I feel for nintendo and al, but lets call a spade a spade. The wiiU was DOA and is still dead and will when compared to everything else in its market, will remain dead. Thats not saying that it may not hit 20M in lifetime sales, or maybe a little more. The way I see it; its the cheapest console on the market, and not just selling the worst, but has been grossly outpaced by the other two consoles on the market within their first years of being on the market while costing significantly more. Its a sad place to be for nintendo or its fans if they are somehow looking to a price drop making the cheapest console already cheaper just to get maybe 4M sales in a single year.
