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snowdog on 21 March 2013
SecondWar said:
Don't all consoles have a slow start? There were similar threads about the 3DS until about mid-2012. The 360 saw sales growth for the first 4 or 5 years, partially due to a fairly sluggish start, and it took a major redesign before the PS3 really got going.



Yup, I've mentioned it in another thread. By the time the PS4 and 720 are released the Wii U should have the following titles released after more than two months worth of a software drought (and it's only been on shop shelves for four months):

Lego City Undercover
Monster Hunter 3G Ultimate
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Pikmin 3
The Wonderful 101
Wii Fit U
Game & Wario
Wind Waker HD
Rayman Legends
3D Mario
Mario Kart U

And if Nintendo have any sense they'll give the Wii U a $50 price cut to coincide with the launches of 3D Mario. Mario Kart U, the PS4 and 720 in November.

Sony are going to have a problem selling a console with 8GB of GDDR5 and a GPU pushing 1.8TFlops for less than $400, Microsoft should be able to have the 720 retailing for $399.99 making a loss on each console sold but if the rumours about always online and no used games turn out to be true then that could be a dealbreaker for many.

And when, considering the current worldwide recession, the PS4 and 720 don't sell as well as the Wii U - launches aligned - and are themselves outsold by both the PS3 and 360 will we hear talk from analysts, gaming journalists and forum members about Sony and Microsoft going third party..? i doubt it.

By the time those titles are released the Wii U will have an installed userbase between 10m and 15m before the end of the year. Guaranteed.



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Gamerace on 21 March 2013
noname2200 said:
Nirvana_Nut85 said:

Gamerace said:

 By 2010 the HD consoles had set the bar so high that Wii couldn't possibly compete at what was now considered an AAA level.    Except for 'kiddie' Marios and Zeldas.

 

Last time I checked , Mario and Zelda were not kiddie games.

I guess with the mentality your probably using, anything that does not have guns, blood and blowing up shit would be considered a kiddie game. Try giving your head a shake, it might do you some good. 

The phrase was in quotation marks for a reason.

Thanks for answering that.  If Nirvana looked at my game library he'd be feeling somewhat embarrassed by this.  

Nirvana - people with that mentality irk me to.



 

Gugerface on 22 March 2013

When their shareholders get furious and start selling like crazy and Microsoft keeps on buying the stock... I guess then that will wake them up.



Soundwave on 22 March 2013

I think internally Nintendo has been slapped awake, the Wii U situation has to be extremely humbling for them.

The fact is though they simply can't do a lot at the moment. You can't just snap your finger and start releasing games, as games take 2 years.

The failure of the Wii U to date is a result of really horrible planning and decision making on Nintendo's part for the past 2 years of developing the platform.

Right now all they can really do is wait for Mario Kart U to be ready and try to salvage this mess from there.



naimisharanya on 22 March 2013

Least tempting console I've ever seen. Would've been different if there was something cool to play. But alas, there isn't really.

Just thinking back to GC, why on earth were they able to have so many cool games in the first year for that, but not for Wii U? What's the difference?

Just look at this:

Luigi's Mansion
Smash Bros
Mario Sunshine
Wind Waker
Metroid Prime

and there were more. But these are just the ones I bought. This should go down as the most disappointing start to a console ever.




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Nirvana_Nut85 on 22 March 2013
noname2200 said:
Nirvana_Nut85 said:

Gamerace said:

 By 2010 the HD consoles had set the bar so high that Wii couldn't possibly compete at what was now considered an AAA level.    Except for 'kiddie' Marios and Zeldas.

 

Last time I checked , Mario and Zelda were not kiddie games.

I guess with the mentality your probably using, anything that does not have guns, blood and blowing up shit would be considered a kiddie game. Try giving your head a shake, it might do you some good. 

The phrase was in quotation marks for a reason.


My apologies. I had realized that after which is why I had "unquoted" it.



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curl-6 on 22 March 2013
Soundwave said:
The fact is though they simply can't do a lot at the moment.

They could show us some gameplay for games like Yarn Yoshi and Bayonetta 2, and give us release dates for Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101.



JGarret on 22 March 2013
curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
The fact is though they simply can't do a lot at the moment.

They could show us some gameplay for games like Yarn Yoshi and Bayonetta 2, and give us release dates for Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101.


Their silence is infuriating, I tell you.



curl-6 on 22 March 2013
JGarret said:
curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
The fact is though they simply can't do a lot at the moment.

They could show us some gameplay for games like Yarn Yoshi and Bayonetta 2, and give us release dates for Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101.


Their silence is infuriating, I tell you.

Tell me about it. I want something to get excited about, dammit, and I know I'm not alone.



JGarret on 22 March 2013
curl-6 said:
JGarret said:
curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
The fact is though they simply can't do a lot at the moment.

They could show us some gameplay for games like Yarn Yoshi and Bayonetta 2, and give us release dates for Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101.


Their silence is infuriating, I tell you.

Tell me about it. I want something to get excited about, dammit, and I know I'm not alone.

I´d really like to know what the hell´s been going on at NCL over the past two years.The Wii was practically abandoned in 2011 and 2012, NSMBU reuses a lot of assets from NSMB Wii (so I figure they didn´t have trouble developing it, and probably it didn´t take that long to develop it)...just what kind of trouble have they been facing, to the point that a game like Pikmin 3 doesn´t even have a solid release date?