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Should they have waited?

Yes, could fend off the c... 30 31.58%
 
No, the early launch adva... 49 51.58%
 
No idea... 16 16.84%
 
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chapset on 05 March 2013

hell no they waited 5 years to long to launch it



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fmjasinski on 05 March 2013

I think with this results the answers is yes. Nintendo could sell at least 1 million more Wii in this period, because Wii and Wii U are competing each other, everybody knows that Wii is sold at profit and Wii U not, so financially speaking would be better for Nintendo.
Nintendo could wait a little more and launch Wii U with better specs and a better name...
I think a lot of people are forgeting one thing: Wii outsold the competition until 2010. And in 2011 the difference between HD console was small.



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fmjasinski on 05 March 2013
TruckOSaurus said:
I think the biggest mistake was stopping supporting the Wii so early. I also have trouble understanding how the hell weren't they better prepared for the Wii U launch with so much time to prepare games for it.


I agree. Nintendo had the gold mine in the hand and did'nt know how to handle it. Abandon the Wii was a dumb decision, the numbers show this, in 2010 with support Wii have sold 17 million, it was showing fatigue but never the HD twins touch such numbers. In 2011, the support was almost zero; in 2012 zero. I will not deny the system would decline with games or without games, but with games, maybe it could reach something like 14 million in 2011 (against 11 million) and maybe 7-8 million in 2012.

About Wii U launch, I totally agree.



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KungKras on 05 March 2013
Mummelmann said:
No, they should never have released the Wii U at all, not in anything like the current form.

And they should have made the correct games for it.



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kain_kusanagi on 05 March 2013

As the Wii U is now waiting would not have helped. If it was released with specs to compete with the PS4/Nextbox then waiting would have helped a lot.



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GuerrillaGamesX2 on 05 March 2013

The more you analyze the wiiu launch, the more you realize how horrific it's been. It's like the worst case scenario for nintendo.

Awful launch sales, no demand, no media coverage, no notable software, next-generation consoles being hyped and completely overshadowing any strategic announcement nintendo can possibly plan to make in order to boost interest. They really thought this thing would sell well, apparently nobody cared about a realistic "Code Red."

The only people that know what nintendo is doing would be the forum goers on here.



curl-6 on 05 March 2013
GuerrillaGamesX2 said:

The more you analyze the wiiu launch, the more you realize how horrific it's been. It's like the worst case scenario for nintendo.

Awful launch sales, no demand, no media coverage, no notable software, next-generation consoles being hyped and completely overshadowing any strategic announcement nintendo can possibly plan to make in order to boost interest. They really thought this thing would sell well, apparently nobody cared about a realistic "Code Red."

The only people that know what nintendo is doing would be the forum goers on here.

While it was handled horrendously, it was quite worse case scenario; so far they haven't had a RROD situation. ;)

 

What they really needed was a "core" 1st party game at launch that really showed off the system's graphical muscle and dispelled the idea of it being an underpowered Nintendo-branded 360.