| mountaindewslave said: strange prediction considering the Wii U is not particularly similar to the Wii in design. I'm not sure how they thought a big tablet controller would attrack the casuals anyway near a gimmicky motion control wand would. if anything the Wii U controller is more suited for the extremely hardcore who want to do a million things at once on different screens |
Check out this thread:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=147642
Signalstar is right, the attitude on VGChartz right up to the Wii U's release was extremely optimistic. You would be in flaming territory if you predicted that the Wii U would sell less than 40 million. And VGChartz wasn't in a bubble, everybody saw Nintendo as being the Apple of video games. The Wii and DS were revolutionary and enormously successful and the Wii U looked like another daring and innovative creation from Nintendo. When Nintendo's last two hardware releases had been nothing short of industry-changing, who would have possibly thought that the Wii U would have been anywhere near a flop.
I can absolutely see this attitude extending to the people working at Nintendo, as well. Top dogs like Kimishima were probably able to see the wheels coming off the bus a bit earlier, but the average rep at Nintendo probably had no idea that anything would go wrong with the Wii U's launch.
