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I with you, third time this happen to me on a console launch. Got to caught in the hype and ended disappointed. I think the Wii U may have been the worst console I bought at launch. Nothing but a glorify dust magent.

The company just need better buisness practice, their too far behind in the times. No one not asking to make a power house system, just make a console that meet today standards.



Don’t follow the hype, follow the games

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Here a little quote I want for those to keep memorize in your head for this coming next gen.                            

 By: Suke

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Selling that much with no games is a success, nintendo made a miracle actually



I think WiiU will make more profit for Nintendo than Ps3 for Sony



Nintendo haven't yet done or released anything in the last 8 years to get my attention, i'm not very fond of the style of their games and never will be. They should get more companies like monolith to makes games for them, X looks very good.



RolStoppable said:
enditall727 said:

So what do you think Nintendo should do? They're in a situation that i know for a fact that they're able to get themselves out of. They just need to realize what it is.

There isn't much that Nintendo can do. They need to figure out what they did wrong while releasing quality games for the Wii U. After five years they can drop the system and start fresh. Just like they did with the Nintendo 64 and GameCube.


I think it's just simply the fact that it's NOT much wrong with the Wii U. It's really only 2 things. The price and that GamePad

 

For me, The Wii was somewhat able to disguise the fact that it didn't have the main 3rd party games. There was a good number of games on the Wii that weren't made by Nintendo that interested me. I'm not seeing the same from the Wii U.

 

Lets say that imagine how Mario Galaxy 3 would be with the GamePad. It would be fun but it would also be inferior to the Wii Mote.

 

I bet my life that if you set every Nintendo fan in a room with Mario Galaxy 3 and they had the option to play with either the GamePad or the Wii Mote , the majority will have evenually ended up playing the game with the Wii Mote!

 

They need to bring the Wii Mote back in action. I want all those games on Wii to have sequals on the Wii U but they can't because of the GamePad.

 

They can't even bring more House Of The Dead titles the same way they did because of the GamePad. 

 

I'm still going to get the Wii U but i know for a fact that i'm going to go out my way to get an extra Wii Mote controller.

I remember EVERYBODY had to have a Wii back in 06. Even my aunt, grandma and little cousins(girls who dont really play games) wanted a Wii. Nobody seems to be talking about the Wii U this time around

 

It's like Nintendo just abandoned that market that they crafted with the Wii.

 

IThey need to make a sacrifice and pack the Wii Mote back in along with the Gamepad so all those games can start flooding the Wii U library once again

 

Nintendo can handle this sh!t



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Cobretti2 said:
Nintendo major problem with the Wii U is they thought 3rd party ports and EA's unprecedented support would get them through the game drought .

There second problem is wanting backwards compatibility. So they spend more time tweaking/creating custom design hardware instead of going for ff the shelf modern stuff which would have cost more.

I agree the gamepad cost them a lot too. However I like it, but they didn't show people like they did with the Wii U, why they want the gamepad.


I dont think there was anything special to show about the GamePad and it also has been proven since not many developers have attempted to make games based around the GamePad like the Wii Mote



The sad part is all this stuff Nintendo needs to learn shoulda been obvious from the get go.



Wright said:

I doubt Nintendo is pleased.


Came in to say exactly this.



I'm pleased with the situation because it shows that Nintendo would rather have bad sales and game delays than decent sales and rushed games.



I approve this message. And agree wholeheartedly. Only thing is, like Rol stated, it will take more abysmal results to shake Nintendo out of this arrogant self indulgence.

Incredibly, Nintendo has become quite frankly, a joke of a company which makes this whole situation doubly baffling is that they are coming off a juggernaut of a success with the Wii (and DS!). As another poster put it, the Gamepad is a step backwards from the WiiMote.

I hope it gets worse for them, quite honestly. Maybe then they will awake from this insanity.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.