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tak13 on 14 April 2017
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RolStoppable said:
tak13 said:

 Splatoon did wonders for the wii u in Japan... Mario kart 8 too for the west!

Of course that cannot  last for as much as  long is needed when the console is overpriced/expensive!

GC price was cutted in 2002 and 2003, -50$ -50$...

Do you believe that wii u wouldn't have a better fate than gc, being at 199$? Price reduction was prohibitive due the costly tablet controller!

Also, a piece of trash? Rol that's rude...

Splatoon and Mario Kart lifted the sales from abysmal to bad for a while, but that's not significant in the big picture. The Wii U was still stuck very deep in failure territory.

I don't think that Wii U would have beat the GC with further price drops. The console got a price drop in September 2013 and showed no convincing response even when a big holiday title released. The sales trajectory was really bad back then, so best case scenario was that the Wii U could have come close to the GC with additional price drops. I actually accounted for more price drops when I declared game over back then. There was no sense in waiting for more games and price cuts to turn the Wii U around, or at least have it finish ahead of the GC. It wasn't going to happen.

Discountinuing the white wii u 8gb of 299$ and black wii u 32gb price falling to 299$ isn't a real price drop, since there was already a wii u at 299$ ;)...

Indeed, wii u with price drops wouldn't pull a miracle as you implied, but for me it would be important to sell like GC or exceed its sales a bit, especially owing to the attach rates of wii u games,  the more wii u were being sold the more each software was selling... Mario kart 8 could be at 10-12m on a 20-22m selling wii u!

Anyway, agree with how you called wii u ( especially because of the tablet controller ) but I would prefer you to say bad instead of that exaggerating and mean characterization a piece of e.t.c...

 Wii u perfomance in Japan for holidays with splatoon...  Wasn't bad, it sold 300k in December and wii u vanished from the stores' shelves!