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I love wii U. Too many people dont like the gamepad. Everyone has their ups and downs but nintendo will come back big. Playstation and Xbox have the same games and to me seem boring. The only reason everyone is buying PS4 is because the graphics are a little better. 



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latingamer86 said:

I love wii U. Too many people dont like the gamepad. Everyone has their ups and downs but nintendo will come back big. Playstation and Xbox have the same games and to me seem boring. The only reason everyone is buying PS4 is because the graphics are a little better. 

I think you just figured it out. But how will Nintendo come back big if all the mainstream gamers care about are graphics?



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You're wrong on so many different levels I don't even know where to start. Blaming the owners of the Wii U console for its failure is damn right stupid. Only roughly 9 million owners of Wii U but another 200 million gamers out there and the owners or fans of Nintendo are to blame? It is not Nintendo's fault that 3rd party game devs are making sloppy ports on the Wii U console. Nintendo even went out and offered dev kits and if games can come out running well for PS3 and 360 then they sure as hell can come out just as good for the Wii U. It's not Nintendo's fault. 3rd parties are just choosing to abandon the Wii U because it is not "cool." They make the excuse that Wii U isn't selling enough but now that it is closing in on that 10 million number, it doesn't seem to make a damn difference. Outside of shooters (it's as good as PS3 and 360 for shooters) the Wii U is a damn good platform for many game genres including platformers, RPGs, sports, racing, strategy, adventure, action and any open world games. Core Nintendo fans are the reason the Nintendo Wii U is selling at all. It's not even true that Ninty fans only buy first party games because although the top selling games for Wii U are published by Nintendo there are a sizable amount of purchases for Zombi U, Just Dance, Skylanders, Lego Marvel, Monster Hunter and Rayman Legends. These third party games have all sold right around 500K which isn't a reason to not support a system. The only genre that I can see not doing well on Nintendo consoles is first person shooters which again are not a reason to not support a system. The argument that the Wii U is lacking on new IPs is weak because it is the established IPs that help sell ANY system not new ones. CoD, GTA, AC, Uncharted, Halo, FIFA, BF, Infamous, FC and Killzone are all established IPs that are pushing sells of the XB1 and PS4. Only Titanfall and Destiny are new IPs that has been helping the sells of those consoles. New IPs are great but they are not what push consoles. Nintendo Land, Bayonetta, Wonderful 101, Splatoon, Devil's Third and even Captain Toad can all be considered new IPs for the Wii U and that is not all that bad for 2 years on the market. Nintendo's faults are its marketing and branding. This is what is hurting Nintendo. Association with the Wii is what is ruining Nintendo's Wii U and the fact that they did a piss poor job of capitalizing on their 1 year head start. Another screw up is not making games that show how valuable the second screen can really be. Nintendo made mistakes but to blame the core Nintendo fan is pretty lame.



Do we actually have any kind of statistics that shows the buying habits for core Nintendo fans and proves how they ignore 3rd party games?



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It will not end well.



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I'm primarily a core Nintendo gamer, and I'm all over 3rd party support as long as it's good. The problem is that military shooters, western RPGs, sandbox, and sports games don't interest me in the very least and that's all 3rd party games have become in the last few years. Don't buy it on my Playstations. Don't buy it on my Nintendos.

It's a double standard I guess. Being a niche Playstation gamer is just being a niche gamer. Being a niche Nintendo gamer is called "Being part of the problem." Weird.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

Actually for the games division it's like father like son comparison, both party to blame, Nintendo gaming division is just afraid to try a new things and just answering what their loyal fans want and need. But it's different with their research hardware and innovation division, which always try something different.



I sorta agree with this. I do believe some of the blame has to go to Nintendo though. they made a system that architecturally is difficult for developers to develop on. It just isn't cost effective for them to make games on this console. What pisses me off about Nintendo (especially Reggie) they just act like they are better than everyone else instead of saying "hey we are wrong here and lets try to fix it".



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