| Soundwave said:
The problem with the Wii U is people don't want it. Explain to me why a casual gamer would want a Wii U when they the 2-3 hours a week/max that they may want to play video games can now be occupied easily by their phone and tablet? With $0 games versus $50-$60 games? Take away the casuals and all the Wii is another GameCube or N64 at best. It's just not an exciting or interesting product unless you must, must, must play Nintendo franchise on the television, which is a small group of people. |
The physical PS4 console is actually an essential part of the systems marketing. It may not feature in every playstation branded tv advert, but on Print its there 95% of the time. Its pretty hard to miss, not to mention the numerous special editions where they marketed quite heavily. I just saw one for Destiny infact. But I think the point is kind of mute because Playstations naming convention is based on numerical supremecy, something Wii U is not.
But as you said the real fault is that the Wii U is undesirable, even if its marketing was crystal, that wouldn't change. I don't think it deserves comparisons to the N64 which actually arrived 2 years after the competition and yet still managed to earn a strongly robust audience which extended beyond Nintendo's core audience.
