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MoHasanie said:
allenmaher said:
WiiU
Pros
-$300 with two games, fully backwards compatible, great exclusives, no online fees, innovative control schemes
Cons
-Few third party games, slightly less graphical fidelity than the other two

I think no online fees alone make the Wii U a better value console. On X1 and PS4 you end up paying $300 for online by the end of the generation. 

and you get access to 12 month/year  x 6 years  x 2 games/month = 144 games in that time with their subscription services



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Well I've bought it for 200$, so great value for me.
Game quality is great (better than Wii so far), thera is a fair amount of good games avaliable, next-year looks great so far.
I've also bought a Ps4 recently and I'm not nearly as satisfied.
That said, you won't find a better value for your money than Steam.



padib said:
binary solo said:
He's hardly going to say different.

But what's interesting, and I think reflective of Nintendo's cluelessness about the market, is that he's trying to appeal to Wii owners ("upgrade to Wii U"), who by a large majority have completely abandoned home consoles as a game playing platform. Or even abandoned video gaming all together.

What does he have to appeal to PS360 owners who are still committed to home consoles as their principle, or at least significant other gaming platform? Not much. Clearly these people are not swayed by price when it comes to Wii U, and they are not big fans of the stock Nintendo franchises.

Maybe NIntendo is not interested in that audience.

Which audience are they not interested in? The former Wii owners who are no longer in the console market, or the PS360 owners who are in the console market? Are you expecting another whole new audience to magically appear to which Wii U will sell? It's pretty clear that Nintendo is already getting its core Nintendo audience. But it's also pretty clear that's not a very big audience. And by what Fils-Aimes is saying he is clearly wanting to attract a larger audience than the one he's getting right now.

In terms of games that will sell huge numbers SSB is their last roll of the dice. After that it's just price cuts and 2nd tier games. And MS and Sony both have price cuts up their sleeves. And no matter how good the 2nd tier games are they are not big audience grabbers.

If Nintendo is content with 20-25 million for Wii U then that's all fine. But I get the feeling they are not at all happy with that prospect, and it was certainly not their target lifetime sales when they launched.

Has any journalist actually asked Nintendo how the hell could they screw up so badly in the generation that immediately followed Sony's huge screw up, which ended up not being as big of a screw up as people first thought it would be?



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And they have the sales to show for it...oh, wait?



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ROFLMAO

O-k-a-y

To each their own.



 

''Wii U Is Better Value Than Xbox One or PS4, Nintendo Exec Says''
''PS4 Is Better Value Than Xbox One or Wii U, Sony Exec Says''
''Xbox One Is Better Value Than Wii U or PS4, Microsoft Exec Says''



Go Reggie!!! eat them up!



Switch!!!

Being arrogant in such situation, only Nintendo does that



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

He is entitled to his obviously biased opinion. As am I.