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Is 3DS the real culprit?

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zorg1000 on 12 February 2014
oniyide said:
zorg1000 said:
gigaSheik said:
The real Wii U struggles is the fact that no 1 wants to buy a Wii U. Not even Nintendo fans.


That doesnt make any sense. U basically said the reason Wii U is struggling is because its struggling.

no what he said is pretty self explantory. Its struggling because people dont want to buy it. Now why people dont want to buy it is a different question.

Struggling in this case means not selling well. Not selling well means people dont want it. Struggling=people dont want it.

The thread title says, "Is the 3DS the REAL cause of Wii U's struggles?" That could easily be reworded to, "Do people not want Wii U because they would rather have a 3DS?"

Both these questions are asking the same thing so yes Gigasheik basically said "Wii U is struggling because Wii U is struggling" or "people dont want a Wii U because people dont want a Wii U"



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Hamister on 12 February 2014

The main reason for Wii U struggles is software drought. Both from a first and third party perspective.

The early struggles of 3DS clearly caused Nintendo to shift some focus from Wii U development to 3DS development. In retrospective you can argue that 3DS was released a little too early. I'd say Iwata is responisible for that mistake.
At the same time Nintendo was caught off guard when it comes to allocating development resources to HD development. Nintendo's software management is responsible for this.

When it comes to third party support, it's more complicating. But one major issue is of course Nintendo's unwillingness to market their systems though third party software.

The Wii U hardware system in itself is absolutely not the problem.