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d21lewis on 13 May 2014
Conegamer said:
Well, I'm afraid on this occasion Iwata is wrong. Wii U needs much more than one title to save it. Times have changed.


You say "Times have changed".  Some other guy told me "History ALWAYS repeats itself".

Which is it, Conegamer?  Which is it?



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F0X on 13 May 2014

This is a great thread about how gaming journalism sucks.



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AZWification on 13 May 2014
mtachi said:
Basically he's keeping his fingers crossed for a hit :S

I bet his fingers are going to hurt really badly from keeping them crossed for too long!



                
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Azhraell on 13 May 2014

A Pokemon for wii u wouldn't change anything since even X/Y is not saving 3ds from a huge decline this year. Series like zelda or metroid either (they were already declining and more with wii u). The console needs a new phenomenon like youkai watch is for the 3ds in japan.



pokoko on 13 May 2014
Skidonti said:
pokoko said:
I tried to explain to my mom that I didn't need to work when one winning lottery ticket would set me up for life. She didn't go for it.

The most interesting thing he said, however, was, "we will need to think very carefully about the balance of revenue and expenses and try to operate by controlling overall costs." I think there are some red flags with that for the Wii U. It wouldn't surprise me if Wii U games going forward got hit with budget reductions as Nintendo shifts attention to other devices, present and future.

I don't think that first statement is not what Iwata said at all.

I could indeed see them moving resources appropriately, as it makes little sense to pour so much money into a WiiU title that it would take millions upon millions of sales to be profitable. You can't often bet on the game you make being a smash hit.

But yet smash hits do exist, there have been a number of them over the years, and they can be the tipping point for hardware. The best way to try and find that smash hit, and I think this is what Iwata is implying, is to support a system consistently, and to try and make killer apps. The tone of his answer is more "we will continue making games to the best of our ability for WiiU because one of those games could be the title that makes it take off" rather than "we're only developing one title for WiiU because one chance is all it needs, like a lottery ticket, and we bet 100% that this one title will be our savior."

Now, hopefully they realize that in order for something to come close to saving them it has to be something we haven't seen before.

The first line was mostly a joke.  I understand what he's saying; when you continue to make games, there is always the chance that one of them could be the next Pokemon.  His was a two part answer, which wasn't really addressed in the original article.  However, he did say that one game can turn around a console and that was probably on purpose.  We might scoff at the idea but it might also resonate positively with investors with less gaming knowledge.  The suggestion of another Pokemon might result in dreams of the Wii U printing Yen.  I believe his saying that was a strategic move.



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binary solo on 13 May 2014

Thing is that one game is not going to be found among its current IP. But in any case one game does not turn a generation around.



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binary solo on 13 May 2014
AZWification said:
mtachi said:
Basically he's keeping his fingers crossed for a hit :S

I bet his fingers are going to hurt really badly from keeping them crossed for too long!

MK8 will be a hit, and it could increase baaseline sales by 50%. Trouble is going from 30K per week to 45K per week is not going to save Wii U.



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Conegamer on 13 May 2014
d21lewis said:
Conegamer said:
Well, I'm afraid on this occasion Iwata is wrong. Wii U needs much more than one title to save it. Times have changed.


You say "Times have changed".  Some other guy told me "History ALWAYS repeats itself".

Which is it, Conegamer?  Which is it?

I'd stick to times have changed. Can't go wrong that way.



 

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kekrot on 13 May 2014

Well to be honest, it is possible that one title can define the fate of a system. If there never was a Wii Sports, we would only have like Wii Play to judge if this Wii Remote is actually worth a try. Wii Sports clearly explained to people what you could do, in simple videos of people waving the remote so that a golf club moved and so on in the videos.

How can they translate this to a Wii U game? I don't know yet but Nintendo needs to figure that out, fast.



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mtachi on 13 May 2014
binary solo said:
AZWification said:
mtachi said:
Basically he's keeping his fingers crossed for a hit :S

I bet his fingers are going to hurt really badly from keeping them crossed for too long!

MK8 will be a hit, and it could increase baaseline sales by 50%. Trouble is going from 30K per week to 45K per week is not going to save Wii U.

The main problem facing the Wii U now is image. No matter how many games are released for it, people will think of it as the weak console that doesn't have any games (which in reality it does, but that doesn't matter, because perception is that it doesn't).