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Topic: How is Nintendo going to get Wii U sales up.

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iKhan

BinaryFragger wrote:

I agree with the above comments about the Wii's early demise negatively affecting the Wii U.
It's strange that Nintendo abandoned a product that was so incredibly popular. They kept saying "the Wii is not dead" but the lengthy software droughts proved otherwise. They absolutely need to support the Wii U up until the very end of its lifespan if they want to keep consumer confidence.

I saw an article that the Japanese Earthquake negatively impacted Nintendo. While the earthquake didn't directly affect the company, it impacted sales for a time, particularly when the 3DS came out, so it forced them to shift a lot of focus to that system.

My guess is that negatively impacted both the Wii and Wii U's software lineup.

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WebHead

I'd say that the Wii U is a hardware sales failure now. It is what it is. Nintendo's just going to have to tough out the next 2 years. They really must launch their next platform successfully.

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Jonencloud

i think it boils down to 2 things mainly

1. get some marketing going. i know this has been said a billion times, but i will repeat it until Nintendo listens. change the target audience from family gamers to more core gamers, retro gamers, geeks, tech enthusiasts. highlight the Wii U`s unique features like the virtual console, backwards compatibility, range of control options, web browsing on the gamepad and of course the games. maybe do a price cut plus a marketing boom just as Zelda U or X comes out.

2. more games, the Wii U has been facing droughts many many times, Nintendo cant develop games fast enough to support the system. something must be done to either speed up development or get more 3rd party support. Nintendo could spend money to start up more game studios or "money hat" 3rd party developers, but that seems a bit risky and unlikely. a 3rd option would be to become more lenient about licensing out their franchises, maybe not give Mario and Zelda to 3rd parties, but older forgotten franchises like F-zero, pilotwings, waverace, etc. it might not result in system sellers, but it would result in more games nonetheless and if these games failed, they`d go down as failed experiments, but if they were successful, everyone would benefit. remember how metroid prime? hyrule warriors shows that lending out ip`s could become the best thing nintendo ever did.

Jonencloud

crimsoncavalier

WebHead wrote:

I'd say that the Wii U is a hardware sales failure now. It is what it is. Nintendo's just going to have to tough out the next 2 years. They really must launch their next platform successfully.

I think that's the best strategy as well. I don't think the Wii U is "dead", because it is still being heavily supported by Nintendo, so in those terms, it's very much alive. But I think more than any other time before, Nintendo's next console needs to be perfect, and even more so, the launch has to be flawless. The entire thing needs to be on point. I mean, flawlessly executed, from development to marketing to release/launch and the software has to be there.

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