I have a feeling when its price drops a little more it'll sell like hotcakes, just like the Wii did.
I consider buying one, but I will do it in spring 2014, when the new games come out. I heard the new Zelda is supposed to be the biggest and most ambitious Zelda game in history.
Poor Wii U.
Just drop the price already, Nintendo.
if the price went to like £140 i'd buy it for animal crossing alone
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;41020130]I consider buying one, but I will do it in spring 2014, when the new games come out. I heard the new Zelda is supposed to be the biggest and most ambitious Zelda game in history.[/QUOTE]
I think they say that about every Zelda game.
[QUOTE=Frisk;41026970]I think they say that about every Zelda game.[/QUOTE]
They didn't say that about the first game.
[QUOTE=Noss;41025299]if the price went to like £140 i'd buy it for animal crossing alone[/QUOTE]
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is for 3DS, dude.
nintendo have about until most publishers stop making games for 360/PS3 to save the WiiU - after that they're fucking done, if it's still barely selling then no one's going to go to the extra effort of downgrading graphics and shit just to sell games for wiiu
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the problem is that the install base won't grow because there are no games, and the publishers won't release more games because the install base isn't growing - essentially the wiiu is asking consumers and/or publishers to throw massive amounts of money at it and hope that it won't be a waste
The article is pretty inaccurate.
CoD Ghosts is coming to the Wii U and whether ot not EA will be plublishing games on the Wii U in completely unknown since they keep changing their mind and are not very clear on what they plan on doing.
The problem with companies like Ubisoft holding off on exclusives because of weak sales is partially their fault. How can a console sell when developers besides first and second parties aren't making games for it? They are becoming part of the issue they keep complaining about.
It's a pretty stupid thing for them to do that, both Nintendo and third parties are at fault for the system not selling.
I seriously don't fucking understand nintendo's whole strategy with the console either - why call it the WiiU? It fucking SCREAMS incremental upgrade and the public at large don't spend money on incremental upgrades. Why launch it with the same first party titles that you've been peddling for the past decade or two? Why have the only games appealing to core fanboyish gamers (your biggest untapped audience) be already available in pretty much identical form on the 360 and PS3, consoles which EVERYONE ALREADY OWNS.
The 3DS was pretty dead on arrival too, and two years later it's FINALLY picked up steam. The WiiU situation is pretty fucking dire right now but I think that Nintendo will pull through with it eventually. A price drop would definitely benefit at this point, but that wouldn't change that other than Sonic Racing and maybe NSMB, there aren't many good games for the Wii U. Nintendo's gonna have to get a lot of good stuff out soon as well as drop the price if they want to have the Wii U be a success.
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41030277]I seriously don't fucking understand nintendo's whole strategy with the console either - why call it the WiiU? It fucking SCREAMS incremental upgrade and the public at large don't spend money on incremental upgrades. Why launch it with the same first party titles that you've been peddling for the past decade or two? Why have the only games appealing to core fanboyish gamers (your biggest untapped audience) be already available in pretty much identical form on the 360 and PS3, consoles which EVERYONE ALREADY OWNS.[/QUOTE]
I genuinely think that the largest contributing factor to the Wii U's failure is the name. Wii U sounds like one of those expensive white plastic things your kid has a drawer full of, not an entirely new console.
More or less any other word in the English language would have been a better title than "Wii U." They tried to bank of brand recognition without realizing that they'd been doing exactly that since the Wii's launch and backed themselves in to a corner with it.
WiiU sounds like a peripheral or something that you slot into the top of your Wii to make it play blurays or something. If they had named it something else I guarantee there'd have been more buzz about it - people would be saying 'holy shit, a new nintendo console!' far more than they actually did.
Also, the only first party launch games that were new IPs were casual party games. If you're trying to attract a new audience, or even convince your old audience to switch consoles, why would you release more or less the SAME GAMES that you've released on the Wii?
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