Kerotan on 03 March 2015
| naruball said: Couldn't disagree more about the name and marketing. The 3ds did and is still doing just fine despite its name/terrible marketing. The problem with the Wiiu is that it was never considered a cool product to own. The masses had a wii, but then upgraded to a ps3/xb360 and then never looked back. They enjoyed games that couldn't be done on wii and games that weren't released on it because the publishers simply didn't want to. With either a ps3/360 you have greater variety of games to enjoy and by that I mean hugely popular games like COD, Minecraft, and Fifa. I'm not sure what versions of these games wiiu got but they must have been in some way inferior. These games are what gets people talking and convincing their friends to get a system for. Wiiu relies on old franchises that don't get people talking. Heavy Rain does. Skyrim does and so does Diablo and even Journey. Pretty sure Wiiu didn't get any of those games, so the masses have no reason to buy one. The only ones who have one are the hardcore Ninty fans who have a deep appreciation of Ninty exclusives. But those are not that many and, it seems to me, not enough to make a console profitable. |
The 3DS name is bad too and I thing it could have done a little better with a new name. Remember it's seen a massive decline too although most of the blame is on the growth of mobile. It just sounds like an upgrade to the DS. Although I suppose it kinda is.
