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Are you waiting for a Wii U price cut

Yes, counting down the mi... 54 24.32%
 
No, I'm waiting for the games 67 30.18%
 
Wii U won't have a price... 35 15.77%
 
Not interested in the system 66 29.73%
 
Total:222
RazorDragon on 16 February 2013

I'm just waiting for the money to come into my wallet so I can buy the ZombiU bundle.



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dahuman on 16 February 2013
AnthonyW86 said:
dahuman said:
Price doesn't make a difference right now since it's not that expensive to start with, the problem is 3rd party dropped the fucking ball and now Wii U has no games to play during these months and that really blows, not that the lack of games is a problem for people who own multiple systems like me but it will effect a lot of people's buying decisions, and that's why Nintendo is now busting balls showing their 1st party games because as usual, 3rd party publishers don't want to risk anything and miss a lot of potential sales down the line.

It's not the 3rd party's that dropped the ball but Nintendo. They should have given the Wii-U a cpu that was equal or faster than that of the 360. It would have made it very easy for developers to port any 360 game to the Wii-U without any major adjustments, since the Wii-U also uses a AMD based gpu and a PowerPC cpu. Instead they took the cheap route and used a lower clocked cpu.


ummmmm...... They are different architectures to start with, though I know what you are saying with the CPU, if they managed to make the PPC750 it into 3.2GHz per core then it would rape the 360's CPU into the oblivion for sure as the architecture is much more efficient.



teigaga on 16 February 2013
VGKing said:
teigaga said:

The wii U had a strong launch this christmas despite what many have suggested, Selling more then double what  the ps3/360 sold in the same period. But since the end of the holiday season, the system has seen terrible sales in line with the troubled PSVita and in some cases is being outsold by the Vita (europe). Unlike sony, nintendo is in the position introduce a price cut to the Wii U and has added pressure as the arrival of competing next gen systems are soon the arrival and are grabbing all the headlines. Following Nintendo's dramatic and almost unnecessary price slash on the 3DS in 2011, we can only assume they will do this to the wii u. With no strong software expected to change it fortunes until fall (unless wii fit U surprises us) then a price cut is almost a given.

Would it be silly to pick up a Wii U now? I was considering it but looking at evidence it seems in the next few months we'll see the inevitable. Anyone else want to pick up he system but afraid of missing out on the potential for a $199/$249 deal. Or maybe you think nintendo will just ride it out the price and wait to see how Mario Kart and Wind Waker HD change its sales this fall?

1. Nintendo is in no position to price cut on the Wii U this year, at least not without taking serious financial losses.

2. 3DS price cut wasn't unnecessary, it was essential. In fact, looking at how its selling now in the US and EU markets, it probably needs another one this year.

1.But would it be a case of them taking financial losses now in order o ensure longer term financial gain? Building momentum is important for a system which is about to face strong competition from the ps4/720.

2. 3DS price cut arrived before any systems sellers were released, yet the systems sellers were already announced only a few months away from arrival. Some would argue nintendo should have waited, particularly in Japan where monster hunter made a strong impact. Not only that but the 3DS has no real competition although I suspect they thought the Vita would be a serious threat, as did everyone else in 2011.