PerturbedKitty said:
Soundwave said:
PerturbedKitty said: 2016 is winning. shit, nintendo better hurry up and replace it because the sales are clearly in a sharp decline. |
This is kind of like saying an morbidly obese man is doing ok because he managed to match the 3 sit ups he did last year.
The Wii U is doing ok relative to the Wii U ... but lets not get it twisted, the "Wii U average" is crap, it far and away the worst selling Nintendo home console ever and selling 3 million-ish a year is not enough to sustain an HD ecosystem in the modern business sense. Shit, I don't think that would be viable even in the SNES days.
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The Wii u average is crap, but they are still profiting off of it. When you actually go ahead and spend the research and development that necessitates making a console, you want to make as much back from that as you possibly can. Replacing it now would be stupid.
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Nintendo's not in this business to sell rinky dink little consoles that can only huff and puff at a 3 million/year tune.
Even after the GameCube generation, I remember Iwata saying Nintendo was not in this business just sell at GameCube numbers. Wii U isn't even going to get close to GameCube numbers.
The R&D for the Wii U was probably paid of ages ago anyway, Nintendo still will sell like 50-75 million pieces of software ... unless they some how managed to spend $1 billion+ researching and designing how to stream a video signal 4 feet to an LCD controller, I'd say that isn't the concern.
There is also the problem of becoming associated with a "loser" brand. Look at Blackberry today ... they are known as a "loser" brand by most "average consumers". But shouldn't they get a medal for supporting the Blackberry OS for many years even when it was obvious iOS/Android were running away with things? No. In consumer electronics no one gives you a cookie or medal for "effort". The longer you cling to a loser product, the more it infests the entire company brand as a whole, people start to associate your brand with failed products, and that is not good either. Blackberry tomorrow could release a phone better than the iPhone with Android support and it probably would sell like shit ... because people associate Blackberry as loser brand.