tak13 said:
Yeah, it could have outsold gc and earned the sufficient profits of it! Nintendo due to the tablet lost money for 1 year and a half ( even if the losses were bearable, they had never lost money anytime before )...Hence, regardless the sales, wii u could be profitable from the beginning and bigger money maker without the gamepad! Wii u could be stronger than ps4 a but thanks to the tablet it would cost 500$+! Would people buy it because of the robust specs? hahaha Then just remember ps3's low sales in its first years because of the excessive price ( plus, the huge money bleeding for sony after the essential price drops-selling at a big loss, due to some specific expensive components! ) Excuse me, but you can't seriously say that the existence of the costly tablet is a small issue! However, lets say that wii u overly high price isn't its big problem, the 100$ of the gamepad could be spend to make wii u more powerful! As for the fact that is marginally better than a ps3, that was just to get decent third party support ( as Iwata had admitted, so they could have make it weaker ), while it didn't, maybe gamepad has to do something with that? Eh?
And there's always the paradigm of xboxne+ kinect! Xbox one, in spite of being strong and having third party support, was selling like the wii u ( or even lower than it, when mario kart 8 was released and increased wii u sales), when it was exclusively bundled with kinect. Microsoft was intelligent and made the felicitous move of dropping it early , automatically xbox one price fell by 100$ and sales skyrocketed! What can you say about that? When you have such problems ( those that you mentioned ) you can at least offer your product at an affordable price, ( Nintendo couldn't, owing to the tablet ), to make the things less bad, combining these issues with the product being overpriced/expensive ( especially, when your're home consoles are deemed as the second choice ) is disastrous ! |
When the Wii U did get third party support, it sold like crap, didn't get DLC or special editions, ect and the third party jumped ship. No, being a little more powerful would have resulted in the same situation it is in now. People expecting 3rd parties on NX to somehow magically sell any better are in for a surprise.
And no, if you got a console you don't have games for, dropping the price isn't going to do crap. Look at the Vita.
