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Soundwave on 17 January 2016
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PerturbedKitty said:
Soundwave said:
PerturbedKitty said:
2016 is winning. shit, nintendo better hurry up and replace it because the sales are clearly in a sharp decline.

This is kind of like saying an morbidly obese man is doing ok because he managed to match the 3 sit ups he did last year. 

The Wii U is doing ok relative to the Wii U ... but lets not get it twisted, the "Wii U average" is crap, it far and away the worst selling Nintendo home console ever and selling 3 million-ish a year is not enough to sustain an HD ecosystem in the modern business sense. Shit, I don't think that would be viable even in the SNES days. 

The Wii u average is crap, but they are still profiting off of it.  When you actually go ahead and spend the research and development that necessitates making a console, you want to make as much back from that as you possibly can. Replacing it now would be stupid. 

 

Nintendo's not in this business to sell rinky dink little consoles that can only huff and puff at a 3 million/year tune. 

Even after the GameCube generation, I remember Iwata saying Nintendo was not in this business just sell at GameCube numbers. Wii U isn't even going to get close to GameCube numbers. 

The R&D for the Wii U was probably paid of ages ago anyway, Nintendo still will sell like 50-75 million pieces of software ... unless they some how managed to spend $1 billion+ researching and designing how to stream a video signal 4 feet to an LCD controller, I'd say that isn't the concern. 

There is also the problem of becoming associated with a "loser" brand. Look at Blackberry today ... they are known as a "loser" brand by most "average consumers". But shouldn't they get a medal for supporting the Blackberry OS for many years even when it was obvious iOS/Android were running away with things? No. In consumer electronics no one gives you a cookie or medal for "effort". The longer you cling to a loser product, the more it infests the entire company brand as a whole, people start to associate your brand with failed products, and that is not good either. Blackberry tomorrow could release a phone better than the iPhone with Android support and it probably would sell like shit ... because people associate Blackberry as loser brand.