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Topic: Why is no one buying the Wii U?

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Cobrat

Help me understand. I bought my Wii U on launch day and it's been the best darn video game console I've owned this generation. Not a single game drought, plenty of third party support, more power than than the XBox 360/PS3 and still no one interested? This doesn't make any sense. This is what everyone was asking for from Nintendo. Why suddenly get all weird and decide it's not enough? What could Nintendo do to that hasn't already been done?

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Hy8ogen

Cobrat wrote:

Not a single game drought, plenty of third party support

Erm, yeah, erm, no?

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LeviCelJir

a lot of people don't have $

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MAN1AC

Ummm...what?

Four more months until Bayonetta 2.

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Captain_Toad

Because people are waiting for Mario Kart 8 to be released.

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SMEXIZELDAMAN

Because PS4 = better

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Joeynator3000

Because it doesn't have Halo....or a bloody and gory game. Or that GTA game.

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Everybody is mad, bro.

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LeviCelJir

Mizore wrote:

Because it doesn't have Halo....or a bloody and gory game. Or that GTA game.

or more importantly minecraft

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DanteSolablood

The problem with the WiiU is that it has very little third party support compared to the other two consoles & the launch was spectacularly messed up... which seems to be a trait of Nintendo's nowadays. They messed up the 3DS launch to & it took months & a massive price drop to eventually get the 3DS selling the way it does now.

Nintendo has always had issues with third party developers, either charging them more to develop for Nintendo than other companies, making hardware which is difficult to program for OR in the case of Square Enix, putting stupid restrictions on them, did you know back in the N64 era that Nintendo wouldn't allow Square to have bigger carts for Final Fantasy 7, so demanded that Square CUT THE GAME IN HALF!?! Square then jumped ship & signed an exclusivity deal with Sony which ran out only a couple of years ago.

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SMEXIZELDAMAN wrote:

Because PS4 = better

Yeah, especially if you love counting pixels.

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XenoGamer

X is coming. Be patient, and the Wii U will dominate.

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Joeynator3000

Oh right, because the graphics on the Wii U are just flat out terrible.
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I mean seriously, just look at those N64 visuals.

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Octane

MyMogo2 wrote:

X is coming. Be patient, and the Wii U will dominate.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but that game isn't going to sell the Wii U. Xenoblade couldn't even manage to sell a million copies on the Wii. Most RPGs never sell that well.

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Hy8ogen wrote:

SMEXIZELDAMAN wrote:

Because PS4 = better

Yeah, especially if you love counting pixels.

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Marre35

Cobrat wrote:

Help me understand. This is what everyone was asking for from Nintendo. Why suddenly get all weird and decide it's not enough?

I think it should be clear by now, that Wii U is not the answer for what people wanted from Nintendo. Nintendo was not ready for the big push of online services what PS3 & 360 came up with, making those systems account based. Wii didn't have anything like that so for many gamers that was enough to buy what competion offered. Yes, the Wii sold great amounts, but almost only for the motion controls that are pretty much yesterdays news by now. That fad is almost dead entirely by now.

Cobrat wrote:

What could Nintendo do to that hasn't already been done?

Its sad to say this but i think Nintendo might have lost it for good this time. I don't think we'll see Nintendo ever again how we remember it. They can only blame themselves for the current predicament they're in. For so many years & console iterations they didn't look seriously what others were doing & now the market is forcing them to change with the times. It just looks like they still aren't ready for that & as a long time Nintendo fan that makes me a sad panda. I just can't support buying Nintendos stuff anymore until they wake up, see & hear what people want from them.

Marre35

Blast

Don't let the sales of something determine the quality of a product.

It really depends on the person how they see the Wii U.

I luv my Wii U and is getting tons of games on it and not all of them are from Nintendo. I luv this freaking console. It has problems but its just so much fun!

I own a Wii U and 3DS. I also own a PS4!

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Marre35 wrote:

Its sad to say this but i think Nintendo might have lost it for good this time. I don't think we'll see Nintendo ever again how we remember it. They can only blame themselves for the current predicament they're in. For so many years & console iterations they didn't look seriously what others were doing & now the market is forcing them to change with the times. It just looks like they still aren't ready for that & as a long time Nintendo fan that makes me a sad panda. I just can't support buying Nintendos stuff anymore until they wake up, see & hear what people want from them.

Well, what do you want to see; more "realism," games that are for more mature crowd, FPS's, 900P/30FPS, a pretty light on your controller, a video game console/media center?

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