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brendude13 on 27 November 2013

The only time Rol rips into Nintendo and he's completely wrong.



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C-M-D on 27 November 2013

"The Wii U is a piece of trash. NSMBU didn't fail, it's that the system itself is so ill-conceived that it has no long term future, regardless of what games Nintendo releases for it."



NobleTeam360 on 27 November 2013

Poor Wii U, although it's only been out for a year I'm starting to think that it is the next Gamecube (Which is a good thing and bad thing).



JGarret on 27 November 2013
RolStoppable said:
JGarret said:
If the Wii U ends up even worse than the GC, I wonder just what they´ll do with the home console business...will there even be a traditional home console as we know them?...home console/handheld hybrid?

The Gamecube failure (it made them profit, but Nintendo themselves consider the GC a sad part of their console history) made them try a very different route, and thus the Wii was made.

If the Wii U performs like the GC, even worse or just a bit above, what´s the 9th gen like for them I wonder..

A home console/handheld hybrid would kill them, because it combines disadvantages while removing advantages. The only actual positive would be that one system means lower chances for software droughts, but that's completely overshadowed by all the bad things that come with it. The idea is usually suggested by people who view Nintendo's home consoles as outright poison that can't be continued, but if you mix food (handhelds) with poison, what's the result?


So, they must once again look at the NES and Wii and understand why those consoles were so successful...or I wonder if they do understand but want to, let´s say, force some other 'philosophies' on customers in hopes they´ll accept them.



C-M-D on 27 November 2013

It makes me wonder, though... How bad would the Wii U sales have been if New Super Mario Bros. U wasn't a launch title?



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gmcmen on 27 November 2013

it's not the wiiu fault. core gamers have left the wii and moved to 360/ps3, every big third party game has established a home base on the xbox/playstation brand, they basically missed out on an entire 7th gen of third party games and online gaming. and the console market biggest franchises and best sellers are third party games and online games. the nintendo console market has been in decline for a long time. the wii was just very succesful fad that over now, nintendo goes back into its declining market share on console.



JGarret on 27 November 2013
C-M-D said:
It makes me wonder, though... How bad would the Wii U sales have been if New Super Mario Bros. U wasn't a launch title?


I believe NSMBU was probably the only thing keeping the system from being completely dead since launch, so think of something that´s worse than bad..like, waaaaaaaaaaay worse.Not pretty at all.



DevilRising on 27 November 2013

I never derided it. I always said it was a great game. I like NSMBWii better overall, but NSMBU is a fine piece of software.



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Lonely_Dolphin on 27 November 2013

Well I never said any of that! Infact I've always said the reason the Wii U sold as much was because of NSMBU. The thing is, NSMBU is just one game, and it had NSMB2 release a few months before, that no doubt hindered it's system selling potential. The real killer though was the massive drought killing all momemtum. It's gonna take a while to reclaim that momentum, and SM3DW is just another step in the right direction.