Miyamotoo said:
Nuvendil said:
That's somewhat true but the reality is that they had numerous opportunities to improve the Wii U's fortunes after the 3DS was all set. 2014 was the biggest one. Nintendo had everything that could go right go right for them: the Big 3 of the 3rd parties all disappointed in their launch state (Titanfall, Watch Dogs, and Destiny) thus derailing a lot of hype trains, Mario Kart 8 was a great success and caused sales to surge and keep them ahead of Xbone for the entire summer, Halo 5 and Uncharted 4 both turned out to miss 2014 and land in later dates, and they had two Game of the Year contenders as exclusives in the last third of the year. There was no excuse - NO excuse - for Nintendo to not maintain the number 2 spot in the console race and have a hugely successful holiday. But they then went and did almost everything possible to completely screw it up. Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta 2 got only limited marketing and no bundles of any kind, limited or otherwise. Smash didn't get a bundle, limited or otherwise. Mario Kart 8 didn't even get a wide spread bundle for the holidays. Their only widespread bundle was the Super Mario 3D World bundle - a game that was a year old, with all hype long dead. The Wii U didn't get a price cut, didn't get a temporary price reduction, there weren't even any exceptional black friday deals. And to top it all off, no system focused ads to play up the backlog. Nintendo had a chance in 2014 to change the Wii U's course and right the ship and they completely and utterly failed.
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Hardly, Wii U after first year was already dead and nothing could save it, all 3rd party abandon Wii U after 1st year and then XB1/PS4 arrived on market so basically market totally forget Wii U. Wii U fate was already sealed in its first year.
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What about dropping the tablet controller? You know, it adds 100 dollars to the price and 80 to the manufacturing cost! For me, no matter what anyone says, main problem of the wii u will be always be the tablet controller... It makes wii u expensive, overpriced and costly to manufacture and add to that, Nintendo unable to slash its price!
Don't we all remember that xbox one was selling on par with wii u when it had the kinect...?
