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Mr Khan on 13 December 2013
ganoncrotch said:
softcoregamer82 said:

We all know the Wii U is in serious trouble and it's trending behind Gamecube, which isn't good at all.  Mario 3D World was a great game, but not a system seller.  Some say "wait until 2014" for games like Smash and Mario Kart, but those are in no way guaranteed to thrive.  Others say the Wii U is dead.  I say it's not, but it's going to take some drastic actions.  Here's my plan.  Please post yours.

1. Release a basic model without gamepad and with a pro controller for $200 or possibly $150 without a game. 

2. $250 bundle upon the arrival of Mario Kart 8, and that's day one of its release.

3.  3D World bundle with price cut for $250.  Ideally, you want to wait to bundle this AAA title.  Okay, it's been a month.  Wait over.

4. Start adding bonuses to the bundles, such as Super Mario Bros. 1-3 for free on the virtual console or other eshop titles.

5.  Rapidly increase the speed of the virtual console releases.  10 games per week minimum, and GOOD games only.

6.  Finish off the move towards accounts by tying games to the account.  Crossplay and crossbuy for a small fee must be included.

7.  Hurry up and release Wii Sports Club games and package as a retail game.

8. Push releases for 2014.  These titles are mandatory: quarter one: DKC, quarter two: Mario Kart 8, quarter three: Smash Bros., quarter four: Zelda U

9. Bring back forgotten IPs for 2015, primarily Star Fox and Metroid.  Again, 2015 at the latest.  And get Animal Crossing out 2015 at latest. 

10.  Advertise non-stop.  They have started advertising for a change.  We need to see more.  Point out in EVERY ad that the Wii U is a brand new system with upgraded graphics and HD capability. 

Just to point out here you want 40 great old games a month? rather than space out any games or let people have time to pick them up and enjoy them? just push 40 a month for the next what 2-3 years?

Okie then future Iwata would you please list the first years 480 GOOD old Nintendo games for the first year so we can get your plan into action.

Keep in mind that you'll have to be forming the rest of your 1440 long list of GOOD games for it by our next meeting or you go in the sharks!

1 "good" game a week would be sufficient, perhaps with theme months as Nintendo used to do with Wii occasionally. "Metroid month" or "Phantasy Star month" or "Bomberman month"



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daredevil.shark on 13 December 2013

1. Dont panic.

2. Be rational.

3. Be calm.

4. Take wii u positively.

5. See 2006/2007's news about ps3.

6. Think.

7. Think harder.

8. Realize the truth.

9. Save cash.

10. Get a wii u.



Stefan.De.Machtige on 13 December 2013

Games

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Soundwave on 13 December 2013

Honestly I'm not sure there's a lot that can be done for the Wii U at this point. It would need a new franchise that drives hardware sales tremendously, like Pokemon did for Game Boy or Wii Sports for Wii to give it an identity, and games take 18-24 months to develop ... Nintendo doesn't have time.

Their play now is to likely begin focusing more on a Nintendo tablet like device which can stream to the TV for 2015. By then it should be reasonable to have something 2x-3x the Vita horse power wise so perhaps they could dual develop games ... make a game for the Wii U, but now they have a handheld that it can be ported to with minimal downgrades.



osed125 on 13 December 2013
Mr Khan said:

1 "good" game a week would be sufficient, perhaps with theme months as Nintendo used to do with Wii occasionally. "Metroid month" or "Phantasy Star month" or "Bomberman month"

They desperatly need to include N64 games in there, no idea why is taking them so long. GC games would also be nice, but I understand why that would take some time.



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Seece on 13 December 2013
osed125 said:
Seece said:

Nope, still an incredibly weak argument. You can't claim they're twins just because they get third party games (and I bet bottom dollar if WiiU got all those third party games you wouldn't be calling them them the HD triplets.)

I suggest you go play an Xbox One and PS4 and you'll see they do things very differently, Xbox One is very focused on Kinect, whereas PS4 is focusing on Vita as an input device.

His point is very clear I think. Unless you want MS or Sony exclusives very badly you can basically choose between either one of them, what drives those consoles up are the 3rd party games, and both of them will have the exact same libabry when it comes to 3rd party stuff. 

Price, off-game features, graphics, etc will be the reason most people will make a choice between the PS4 and X1, and not the difference between libraries.

Edit: Nintendo case is different because every since the N64 what drives the console are 1st party games, very different from MS and Sony.

Again disagree, this is a roundabout way of saying Nintendo first party is better than MS and Sony, which is subjective at least to the point where one isn't massively ahead of the other. In fact, if you buy a PS4 say, you're more likely to be interested in XB1 exclusives than WiiU exclusives. Why would that person buy a WiiU for its exclusives, but not an Xbox One??



 

green_sky on 13 December 2013
noname2200 said:
1. Panic

2. Run around aimlessly screaming for a few minutes.

3. Fire Iwata

4. Fire Miyamoto

5. Focus exclusively on hardcore titles

6. Release mobile versions of old Nintendo games

7. Begin shifting resources to iOS development

8. Make multi-platform versions of all first-party titles going forward

9. Drop the Wii U's price to $200 and cease future home console development

10. Drop the 3DS' price by $50 per SKU and cease future handheld console development

-Michael Pachter





justinian on 13 December 2013

The 10 point plan is to fire Iwata ten times. What ever he did years ago is irrelevant.

Sony fired "Mad" Ken and turned their fortunes around.

Every idea mentioned here, rather be it stupid or sensible, will never happen as long as Iwata is in charge. He did pretty much nothing during the year to turn the wii u sales around. Put him in charge of the 3DS because that's all he seems to talk about.

With $14bn in hard cash available (this figure depends on whose report you read, I went for the middle figure) a plan B should have been implemented long before the console was even launch.
Plan B: Expand your studios to create new IPs and more diverse games and keep the supply steady. Even if it wasn't needed it would still create profits.

Nintendo does have something unique to offer, they just don't offer it enough. Instead they always talk up third party support before the console is launched and then get ditched.

If they are still releasing consoles in 2020s they will do this same thing over and over again.

The GameCube and dreamcast dropped to ridiculously low prices and no one wanted them. Why? Because they weren't desirable. Just like the wii u. Dropping the price is the worst thing to do. It didn't work then and I don't see it working now.

They need to make the console desirable and there is only one way for them to accomplish that, and that is through new desirable games. Oh, there is a problem here. There are no "new" games. Just rehash of games that sold very well because the wii sold very well.

Mario Kart 8 will sell poorly because the wii u is selling poorly and anyone expecting miracles are in for a severe shock. Tag me on this.

Anyway, enough of that. Fire Iwata and bring someone in that will actually do something noticeable and things may pick up.

Either way I will enjoy SSB, hopefully WatchDogs (may get it for the wii u depending on gamepad functions) and Mario Kart 8, I will let Nintendo worry about their predicament as someone cleverly mentioned.



osed125 on 13 December 2013
Seece said:

Again disagree, this is a roundabout way of saying Nintendo first party is better than MS and Sony, which is subjective at least to the point where one isn't massively ahead of the other. In fact, if you buy a PS4 say, you're more likely to be interested in XB1 exclusives than WiiU exclusives. Why would that person buy a WiiU for its exclusives, but not an Xbox One??

Neither him or I are saying that. And you are missing the point again.

Say you want to play CoD, Assassins Creed, and Battlefield. You have 4 options: 360, PS3, PS4 and X1. You know you can enjoy all of those games in any of those consoles, so now, how will make that decision? Is price an issue? You will buy a PS3 or a 360. Do you care about graphics? You will buy a PS4 or X1. Which one you like the most, Live or PSN? What system most of your friends have? the questions go on and on. Games library will be the first thing that will come to mind, once you realize the games you want are in all systems, you move to ther stuff.

What we are both saying isn't about what exclusives games are better than others, what we are saying is that the reason people buy Nintendo consoles is for 1st party games, 3rd party games don't matter at all; and the main reason people buy a MS or Sony consoles is for 3rd party games, 1st party games matter very little. That is something no one can deny.



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megagamer21 on 13 December 2013

I agree