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Forums - Nintendo - Are people just being too hard on the wii u?(spec and sales wise)

 

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Yes, too hard 77 45.83%
 
No, justified 72 42.86%
 
You are fucking crazy, but free! 8 4.76%
 
lol wtf 10 5.95%
 
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Jay520 on 09 July 2013

Yes. As it is now, WiiU fans have nothing to hope for. I prefer my enemies to have a bit of hope so I can have something to rip from their hearts and destroy.



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DevilRising on 09 July 2013
Gamerace said:
Depends on the person's expectations.

If you're happy with Nintendo returning to 20-30m in sales and only really appealing to the Nintendo core and kids again, then it's still overpriced and lacks games but in time both of those will be resolved and it will do okay based off the strength of Nintendo's franchises alone. Specs don't really matter in this case, other than it's in HD now and 3rd parties are of lesser consideration.

If you expected Nintendo to maintain even a portion of Wii's expanded base OR be appealing to the 'core gamer' as Nintendo originally position the system then WiiU is a total cluster-f--- and deserves to be damned. It's kinda like earning a million dollars, wasting it and being left as broke as you were before. It's just WTF dude?


I still feel very comfortable with my prediction that Wii U will sell AT LEAST 50m or so, lifetime.

And no, software drought aside, I don't think the Wii U is a "clusterfuck", and I feel that people such as yourself who believe that it is, will be disproven given time.



DevilRising on 09 July 2013
Jay520 said:
Yes. As it is now, WiiU fans have nothing to hope for. I prefer my enemies to have a bit of hope so I can have something to rip from their hearts and destroy.


As someone who bought a Wii U at launch, I would not say that "nothing to hope for" accurately describes me at all. There are already a LOT of games that have been announced that I'm very much looking forward to, and the potential that exists for what could come down the line also has me rather excited.

As for the rest of your comment? lol..................................



Gamerace on 10 July 2013
oniyide said:
Gamerace said:
Depends on the person's expectations.

If you're happy with Nintendo returning to 20-30m in sales and only really appealing to the Nintendo core and kids again, then it's still overpriced and lacks games but in time both of those will be resolved and it will do okay based off the strength of Nintendo's franchises alone. Specs don't really matter in this case, other than it's in HD now and 3rd parties are of lesser consideration.

If you expected Nintendo to maintain even a portion of Wii's expanded base OR be appealing to the 'core gamer' as Nintendo originally position the system then WiiU is a total cluster-f--- and deserves to be damned. It's kinda like earning a million dollars, wasting it and being left as broke as you were before. It's just WTF dude?


why would this make a difference? what does it matter how much a console sells as long as it gets games people want

Yes, that's what I'm saying.  If you're a Nintendo fan and just care about getting the lastest Nintendo games then power/sales/etc are pretty irrelevant to you just so long as you get the next Mario, Zelda, Etc., etc.     Of course, by that logic, Nintendo could have just released all those games on Wii too.  Frankly that'd have been fine with me.



 

oniyide on 10 July 2013
Gamerace said:
oniyide said:
Gamerace said:
Depends on the person's expectations.

If you're happy with Nintendo returning to 20-30m in sales and only really appealing to the Nintendo core and kids again, then it's still overpriced and lacks games but in time both of those will be resolved and it will do okay based off the strength of Nintendo's franchises alone. Specs don't really matter in this case, other than it's in HD now and 3rd parties are of lesser consideration.

If you expected Nintendo to maintain even a portion of Wii's expanded base OR be appealing to the 'core gamer' as Nintendo originally position the system then WiiU is a total cluster-f--- and deserves to be damned. It's kinda like earning a million dollars, wasting it and being left as broke as you were before. It's just WTF dude?


why would this make a difference? what does it matter how much a console sells as long as it gets games people want

Yes, that's what I'm saying.  If you're a Nintendo fan and just care about getting the lastest Nintendo games then power/sales/etc are pretty irrelevant to you just so long as you get the next Mario, Zelda, Etc., etc.     Of course, by that logic, Nintendo could have just released all those games on Wii too.  Frankly that'd have been fine with me.


Well, you kind of lose me toward the end, Wii had a regular life cycle, a new console was coming, thats just the way it is. Nothing really would have changed that and they need games to move systems, which is why they are on Wii U. ninty, MS, Sony doesnt matter, they all move on, thats just the nature of the consoles. Hell if we really wanna get crazy we can say those WIi games could have been released on GC, just needed a motion add on(which is what they were gonna do)



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Gamerace on 10 July 2013
DevilRising said:
Gamerace said:
Depends on the person's expectations.

If you're happy with Nintendo returning to 20-30m in sales and only really appealing to the Nintendo core and kids again, then it's still overpriced and lacks games but in time both of those will be resolved and it will do okay based off the strength of Nintendo's franchises alone. Specs don't really matter in this case, other than it's in HD now and 3rd parties are of lesser consideration.

If you expected Nintendo to maintain even a portion of Wii's expanded base OR be appealing to the 'core gamer' as Nintendo originally position the system then WiiU is a total cluster-f--- and deserves to be damned. It's kinda like earning a million dollars, wasting it and being left as broke as you were before. It's just WTF dude?


I still feel very comfortable with my prediction that Wii U will sell AT LEAST 50m or so, lifetime.

And no, software drought aside, I don't think the Wii U is a "clusterfuck", and I feel that people such as yourself who believe that it is, will be disproven given time.

I originally predicted 30m for WiiU but that was before it's sales fell off a cliff.   It's trailing even Gamecube sales (badly) at this point and I'm not convinced it offers anything that the Gamecube didn't (yes of course, HD, online, gamepad etc. but it's more comparible to an updated Gamecube than Wii2).

I'd be very happy to be proven wrong on this point though.



 

JGarret on 10 July 2013

I don´t think they are.Nintendo fucked up practically everything they could with this system, a far cry from 2006.