| Arlo said: Someone please paint me a picture of a consumer who doesn't want the Wii U because all they know is the controller, and would suddenly want it because they saw more of the console itself. Because I'm starting to see this as a sort of straw man argument. The type of consumer who is really that clueless already doesn't want it. If they're not drawn in by the controller concept (or, you know, the games on the system), then how is anything else going to help? I agree that this a *a* problem with the Wii U, but it's not *the* problem. The biggest problem is that people just don't want the games on it enough to buy it. But that's not something that a lot of people want to accept. |
| TheLastStarFighter said: People aren't idiots, no one is confused about Whatbwii U is. The problem is people bought Wiis, enjoyed them for 4 years or so but moved on to PS360. Wii U doesn't offer enough to lure them back when the much cooler, more high tech and vastly larger library sporting PS4 and One are available. Nothing is all that exciting about the Wii U experience, and gamers learned the hard way that major 3rd party titles like COD and AC are not sold on a system called Wii. But no one thinks it's a controller. |
Let see facts for moment:
-When they first time showed Wii U, 90% of time it was gamepad, later they market only gamepad.
-They called new console Wii U, they had basically logo Wii with strange sign that looks like U.
-They launched console with NSMBU game that basically is HD port of Wii game.
Keep in mind that very good number of buyers of Nintendo products are parents that buy consoles for their kids and casuals, and big majority of them thought that Wii U is basically very priced gamepad addon for Wii that already have, even retailers were confuesed (look my previous post). Add to that high price of console espacily in comparison with PS3/Xbox360 on which same games worked and looked better than on Wii U, and weak launch titles. By time Nintendo figured out what is going around, they already had terible sales and all 3rd party abonden them.
