Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:
Wii U could be discontinued in a year. We have no idea.
Comparing it to the Wii is pointless, the Wii sold 100 million units, the Wii U is struggling to get to 15 million and is the worst selling Nintendo console by a mile.
I don't think retailers are knocking on Nintendo's door dying to order tons of new units either, Nintendo doesn't just tell retailers "hey stock our product because we say so". It doesn't work like that. If a product is selling like a dog turd, retailers will start to phase it out.
Also as mentioned above maybe the Saturn analogy is more apt, the Saturn was coming off the massively successful Genesis, and sold incredibly poorly as a follow up due to a lot of poor design decisions. And the Dreamcast replaced in about 4 1/2 years, which if NX launches next year will be about the same thing.
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Even if they discounted Wii U next year (that doesnt have any sense beacuse Wii U next year will get Zelda U, Pokken Tournament, Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem..), Wii U would be discounted after 4 years and Dreamcast was discontinued after 2.
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It would be more like the Saturn in that case (which I'm not really sure is a compliment, I'd rather be compared with the Dreamcast). Though Dreamcast released a year earlier in Japan too, so effectively it was active from 1998-2001.
And it was discountinued because of business issues within Sega, not because it couldn't have been stretched out another year or two.
