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DanneSandin on 12 January 2013
Michelasso said:
DanneSandin said:

Aaaw, come on! CoD is released much more often - as is Halo!! A 3D Mario usually hits every 5 year, and a 2D Mario is even more rare! Well, that is until the "New"-series... Just because it has "Mario" in the title doesn't mean it's the same sort of game. Are Mario Kart and Mario Galaxy the same sort of game?


Huh? What? CoD? Halo? What are those? Something to eat? I don't like cod, I prefer mackarel!! ^_^

Seriously, from what I wrote you really believed that I am one wasting money (and the more precious time!!) on crappy FPS? Wii b/c, 2013 PS3 exclusives didn't ring a bell? At least 3 of them will be new IPs: The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls, Ni No Kuni. No karting nor galaxy either. And in any case from what I've seen the Mario for Wii U is the collecting coins one. Aren't you guys sick of it? If Iwas to buy a Wii U for the Wii b/c it would be for Zelda and the JRPG. And maybe few others gems. Mario, like the FPS, would stay out of my system. I'm not interested. Sorry.

Well, Zelda is as common as any 3D/2D Mario or Karting or whatever...



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DanneSandin on 12 January 2013
NintendoPie said:
DanneSandin said:

Because Wii offered something new: motion controls. And so far the advertisements haven't shown off the Wii U as something unique; they suck too much

Despite the Ads not showing the new controls, the Wii U does have them. Your arguement is technically flawed. (Minus the Ad part of it, that's (very) correct.)

My statement is not flawed anywhere; what I was trying to say is that the ads don't show this new kind of controler in such a way that the public gets interested. And anyways, people are used to touch screens, making the Wii U less... novel than the Wii



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NintendoPie on 12 January 2013
DanneSandin said:

My statement is not flawed anywhere; what I was trying to say is that the ads don't show this new kind of controler in such a way that the public gets interested. And anyways, people are used to touch screens, making the Wii U less... novel than the Wii

People aren't used to touch screens in the way Nintendo is trying to use them.

I mentioned that you were right about the Advertising part. You don't have to sell me on that anymore!



NoirSon on 12 January 2013

A little bit of a market problem from what I can see. Nintendo seemed focus on promoting the family aspect of the device. and Mario Bros.

Which isn't bad but they failed to capitalize on promoting anything else making it look like the device is a one trick pony which is what many feel doomed the Wii. Nintendo should have had a advertisement dedicated to showing the media capabilities of its Nintendo TVii and how it can enhance the living room experience along with at least a few commercials advertising the more traditional/"Hardcore" games/ports that were on the system during the month of December once the luster of New Super Mario Bros. U wore off.

Heck, one for Ninja Gaiden 3: RE, which Nintendo published themselves, would have probably pushed the game into better numbers due to how low key the original Ninja Gaiden 3 release was. Granted obviously they can't promote everything but the amount of advertisements and the type they put out there were pretty lame. It seems like the best way to get buzz on Nintendo products that don't have Mario in them is to buy a Nintendo system because the eShop and Wii channels do better jobs at getting stuff across then their main media branch has done.



Cheebee on 12 January 2013

Lol, so many haters.

WiiU's launch and sales look 'bad' compared to Wii, while in reality, Wii was a phenomenon unlike any before it, and probably unlike any we'll ever see again. Nothing's going to match that craziness. Compared to pretty much most other launches before it, WiiU's doing very, very well.

If anyone thinks WiiU's launch and early sales are disappointing, they'll be in for a pretty bad shock when PS4 and the next Xbox release. xD



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ninjablade on 12 January 2013
Cheebee said:
Lol, so many haters.

WiiU's launch and sales look 'bad' compared to Wii, while in reality, Wii was a phenomenon unlike any before it, and probably unlike any we'll ever see again. Nothing's going to match that craziness. Compared to pretty much most other launches before it, WiiU's doing very, very well.

If anyone thinks WiiU's launch and early sales are disappointing, they'll be in for a pretty bad shock when PS4 and the next Xbox release. xD


wii u numers also look bad compared xbox and gamecube launches. nextbox and ps4 will easily out sell it if they have supply because the core audience is still intact.



Wander_ on 12 January 2013
Cheebee said:
Lol, so many haters.

WiiU's launch and sales look 'bad' compared to Wii, while in reality, Wii was a phenomenon unlike any before it, and probably unlike any we'll ever see again. Nothing's going to match that craziness. Compared to pretty much most other launches before it, WiiU's doing very, very well.

If anyone thinks WiiU's launch and early sales are disappointing, they'll be in for a pretty bad shock when PS4 and the next Xbox release. xD


Nope you're wrong the PS2 was the best system launch. Better than the Wii.



Cheebee on 12 January 2013
Wander_ said:
Cheebee said:
Lol, so many haters.

WiiU's launch and sales look 'bad' compared to Wii, while in reality, Wii was a phenomenon unlike any before it, and probably unlike any we'll ever see again. Nothing's going to match that craziness. Compared to pretty much most other launches before it, WiiU's doing very, very well.

If anyone thinks WiiU's launch and early sales are disappointing, they'll be in for a pretty bad shock when PS4 and the next Xbox release. xD


Nope you're wrong the PS2 was the best system launch. Better than the Wii.

Really? I remember the PS2 launch was quite lackluster... there was some game with fireworks or something and... well that was pretty much it.



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Wander_ on 12 January 2013
Cheebee said:
Wander_ said:
Cheebee said:
Lol, so many haters.

WiiU's launch and sales look 'bad' compared to Wii, while in reality, Wii was a phenomenon unlike any before it, and probably unlike any we'll ever see again. Nothing's going to match that craziness. Compared to pretty much most other launches before it, WiiU's doing very, very well.

If anyone thinks WiiU's launch and early sales are disappointing, they'll be in for a pretty bad shock when PS4 and the next Xbox release. xD


Nope you're wrong the PS2 was the best system launch. Better than the Wii.

Really? I remember the PS2 launch was quite lackluster... there was some game with fireworks or something and... well that was pretty much it.

it sold 600k in japan only on launch week



Soundwave on 12 January 2013

Wii U had a decent first 10 days in North America with 400k+ sold or so, but only 460k sold for all of December with a new Mario and supply still available on storeshelves in many areas should be setting off alarm bells at Nintendo.

That is worse than the Playstation 3 did at $500/$600 its first December. Comparing to the 360 is a misnomer because really MS was launching a 2006 product rushed for the end of 2005 and didn't have any inventory to sell.

Wii U is also probably the first Nintendo system in a long time to fail to cross 1 million+ through its first holiday season in the US.

N64 - 1.8 million (approx) sold through Dec. 31st, 1996

GameCube - 1.23 million sold through Dec. 31st, 2001

Wii - 1.08 million sold through Dec. 31st, 2006 (completely sold out)

Wii U - 885,000 (approx) sold through Dec. 31st, 2012