Gaming Nintendo Confirms Wii U Has Flopped, Slashes Sales Forecast By ~70%

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Of all "games", you bring the last of us as an example? But this is not a game, it's a tv movie with third person shooting minigames instead of advertisements...

I have been a "PC Master race" gamer for 20 years, and i had pretty much given up on modern gaming until i discovered the Nintendo DS. These days, i maintain a powerful rig for work (programming) and the occasional Bethesda game, and game almost exclusively on my 3DS...

I do not like to play my movies, especially when they are padded to the death to extend the "play time", in order to justify their cost.

I can understand that they can be impressive the first few times, but after the novelty of "hey its like a movie" dies and you get bored to death by the lack of decent gameplay, you 'll come to understand that Sony and MS were the dark ages all along... I know...

Errrrr. No.

Have fun though.
 
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WiiU lags PS3 sales ? http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41917/Global/

http://fortune.com/2014/09/14/nintendo-wii-u-turnaround/

Some good news I guess.
 

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Anything Michael Pachter says is wrong.

The guy has not had a single correct prediction ever.

That looks like a pretty accurate assessment of the state of things to me. Equally he has made some good predictions, though mainly if you consider the financial side of things which, funnily enough, is what he tries to predict/is paid to predict. A favourite seems to be his saying get out of Nintendo in 2008 (when the wii was riding high/rising up, he was not wrong.
You are unlikely to catch me sharing a beer with the guy or taking his advice at face value, though I would not dismiss it out of hand.
 

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Nintendo Is Eulogizing The Wii U While 'Star Fox Zero' Is Attempting To Save It

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In the Miyamoto interview, he expands on why the gamepad failed to make an impact. It was hurt, not helped, by the rise of tablets.

“I think the assumption is we were trying to create a game machine and a tablet and really what we were trying to do was create a game system that gave you tablet-like functionality for controlling that system and give you two screens that would allow different people in the living room to play in different ways. …. Unfortunately, because tablets, at the time, were adding more and more functionality and becoming more and more prominent, this system and this approach didn’t mesh well with the period in which we released it.”


He concludes the interview continuing to talk about the system in past tense.

“I still feel it was a very novel approach—and a very interesting idea.”

The general mood from Nintendo lately has been that the Wii U is essentially dead, even if they’d never say that outright in a press-sanitized statement. The NX is coming, possibly as soon as a year from now, and even though their supposed new “focus” is on trying to reinvigorate Wii U owners, I’m not sure how an interview like that does anything to reassure them as it quite literally reads like a eulogy for the console.


It's interesting to read what Miyamoto was thinking when coming up with the concept behind the WiiU. It obviously wasn't very innovative and the gamepad (tablet controller) was what killed the WiiU. To go from the coolest controller (Wii motion controller) to the worst controller in one generation takes a fair amount of screwing up. I also like how they say they want to keep the NX details secret so the other companies don't copy them. It'll be interesting to see if they have anything worth copying. It might be smarter for Nintendo to forgo console sales and be just a software company. He likes to hide behind the idea that "Tablets beat the WiiU's tablet" ... but that is smoke and mirrors. The GamePad is a controller and can't function on it's own. Obviously that is a huge advantage for tablets over gamepads.



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2015 sales look they will be 1/2 of 2014.
Not good.
 

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I thought Wii U was abandoned. They still make games? 100% chance of Zelda being dual system like Twilight Princess.

I hope I one day get to utter a line like "the Wii U did not even get its own Zelda game". Some serious wind up potential there.
 

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