Hardcore cheering the Wii U’s poor performance. You mentioned this is Nintendo’s punishment for releasing a PS3/360 in an economic depression. I can’t imagine the blood bath that will occur when Sony & M$ release their new consoles. Why do the hardcore just take for granted that either successor will light the charts up?
Equally delusional is the hardcore Nintendo fan claiming games like 3d mario or Aonuma Zelda or pikmin(!) will help spur sales. Business 101 says know your customer, Iwata commented that they got ‘lucky’ with the Wii in a recent interview. Unreal, Nintendo wants to be the cool kid accepted by the hardcore. They are the iconoclast and when they embrace that they gain something more important than hardcore acceptance. Profits! Lol.
Wii 2 seems like a better idea than Wii U.
Iwata knows better. The Wii was designed to be the Anti-Gamecube. Something like the controller, which seemed scary to most people, was redone as a remote. Nintendo looked to the NES for pointers on how to make a game console. It’s not a coincidence the Wiimote was a NES controller turned sideways.
In the middle of the Wii lifecycle, I got the impression Nintendo thought they could have their cake and eat it too. Maybe they could keep making Gamecubes (what they want to do) while keeping along the New Audience. 3DS as the successor to DS was to keep making Gamecubes and retain the DS audience. Nintendo said it would be ‘growing the market’ because such a system would get everyone. Didn’t work.
Wii U is an attempt to make a Gamecube with tricking the New Audience to buy it. I also get the impression Nintendo has no respect for the New Audience. Just because it is called Wii U doesn’t mean Wii users will buy it. Just because it is a 2d Mario doesn’t mean 2d Mario people will buy the console to get to the game. Just because Nintendo Land sports Nintendo IPs doesn’t mean those consumers will upgrade to the main games.
Aside from a few things like a 2d Mario and the brand name, the Wii U was entirely designed for the hardcore. The GamePad is identical to the Gamecube controller but with a touch screen in it. Ironically, the hardcore only attack the ‘bad branding’ and 2d Mario game (the only game that is selling the system).
You don’t see the hardcore buying any of the third party games. Where are the BLOPS 2 Wii U sales? Nonexistent.
Have you noticed that the problem is never with the hardcore? The hardcore are perfect angels. Everyone else is the problem. Always.
Going forward, I hope Nintendo gives up on trying to satisfy the infantile Gaming Message Forum poster and create their own normal as they did with the DS and Wii software.
I really wish there was a Wii U account system and small but downloadable games. The downloadable games would be perfect for the GamePad but no Internet account system means there is no point to buying them.