bigtakilla said:
We can agree to disagree. All the systems will be cheaper, true. But there will be a TON of games that will only be on Wii U, while most of the games (aside from Uncharted and Halo) will be on both consoles. Wii U will still have the most experiences you cannot get anywhere else, and people will be looking to get another console. |
There will be 9-10 really great games on the Wii U -- Mario Kart 8, Zelda U, Mario 3D World, Smash Bros, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, and a few others that you really can't play elsewhere. Honestly in the large scheme of things this is not a lot, and not dissimilar to other Nintendo consoles plenty of people have passed over. Of course there will be other good games, but those are the ones that would really have influence to sway someone to purchase a platform.
The vast majority chose a Playstation over a N64, even though it had Mario 64, Zelda: OoT, GoldenEye (virtually three straight GOTYs in a row), and most ignored the GameCube even though it had many great games too. I don't really see Wii U being much different.
Nintendo isn't dropping the Wii U price because they know it's not going to be a successful product. Yes they will give it lip service in interviews and support it alright through 2016, but they have resigned themselves that only about 18-20 million people are interested in such a console and they're not going to take any more unccessary losses. Those people are going to buy at some point no matter what, no sense in taking a loss in the process.
