Why is the GameCube selling better than the Wii U???

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ohmylanta1003 said:
Everyone has pointed out some great reasons for why it's not selling well, but I'd like to point out another, less quantitative one. At least in America, it's just simply "not cool" to be a fan of Nintendo or an owner of a Wii U. People here look at you like you're fucking 6 years old if you tell them that you "play Nintendo" (as they like to say it). And for a product to have that type of vibe surrounding it is, I'd say, extremely detrimental to overall sales.

Entirely depends on the age group in question. Nearly every parent I know generally only considers Nintendo, ipad, or PC games for their young kids. Once a kid is old enough to start legitimately tell their parents what they want and get it, thats a different story. Even then Nintendo, Ipad, PC games are part of the mix of SONY and Microsoft.

It's generally in later years that people who buy consoles for themselves that Nintendo really starts to fall off. In these days where there are actually a huge swath of  gamers who are not young people or people /w children who soley decide what games to buy that you can get that an age demographic where Nintendo just doesn't fill the need that can't be found elsewhere.

Even then. I still fail to see why this is a huge problem for Nintendo. Take Amiibos' for example. This is a great product, that honestly could be much better but still works, that Nintendo is pushing. Kids are a great demographic, despite what I said above. If you target them well you can make bank despite not selling some abitrary large number to everyone else that other people expect or want.  Remember back in the GC era Nintendo sold less than others but still were a highly ROI company.

I've said in the past that Nintendo has basically passed me by and generally doesn't sell a single product that I want. That doesn't mean they can't succeed doing what they've always done. People need to stop trying to make Nintendo grow up with them. This was a hard lesson for me to learn. You either need to retain enough of your childhood love for Nintendo games or you need to pass the torch to your own children and move on.