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[Dharmanator]

http://m.ign.com/art...-as-well-as-wii

Yeah. This guy is about 9 months behind me. He gets paid?

I point out the obvious I get belittled here. He points out the obvious he gets paid $250 grand a year. 8)

[grahamf]

Sorry, but if you're going top be constantly linking to IGN would you mind quoting a summary of the article? Otherwise it seems suspiciously like linkbait.

Edited by grahamf, 12 December 2013 - 07:36 AM.

[Hank Hill]

Sorry, but if you're going top be constantly linking to IGN would you mind quoting a summary of the article? Otherwise it seems suspiciously like linkbait.

 

The summary of the article is "Wii U will only sell 25 million units in its lifetime" whenever that quote is going off of currently old data without taking anything that would happen in the future into consideration that'd boost system sales such as price cuts, the release of Mario Kart 8, or the release of Super Smash Bros 4.

 

http://m.ign.com/art...-as-well-as-wii

Yeah. This guy is about 9 months behind me. He gets paid?

I point out the obvious I get belittled here. He points out the obvious he gets paid $250 grand a year. 8)

 

See, you claim you point out the "obvious" while completely ignoring the obvious.

 

The data both you and this "analyst" are completely ignoring are a lot of factors that will come into play in the future. Factors in the form of price cuts, being cheaper than the competition, currently being the only next-gen system to actually have any form of backwards compatibility with its predecessor's games and controllers, and system-selling games such as Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros.

 

By this analyst's logic, the 3DS should only have sold 30 or 40 million units in its lifetime based on the first year. And guess what happened? The 3DS is currently on its way to getting close to 40 million systems sold in its second (third?) year. Gee, wonder what changed...oh, yeah. Nintendo released Mario Kart 7, Mario 3D Land, a ton of other games after the fact, and cut the system price.

 

By this analyst's' logic, the PS3 should've sold in the 25-30 million range based on its first year. But look at that magic! The system got a price cut and games worth buying, and it started selling.

 

Am I saying the Wii U will sell anywhere near Wii numbers? No. Will it only sell 25 million units? Heck no. The Wii U more appeals to the casual market more than the PS4 or Xbone ever would, as it has more value per dollar. $300 gets you the system with NSMBU and NSLU, and the system is also backwards compatible with the entire Wii library and controllers. Not to mention this bundle that was offered by Nintendo UK that nets you the system with NSMBU/NSLU/Mario 3D World/Mario Wiimote/Mario Hat for £299.99. For $400 you can get a PS4 with no games, that isn't backwards compatible with any PS3 games or controllers, or $500 for an Xbone that isn't backwards compatible with any Xbox 360 games or controllers.

[A W Reezy]

Cosmos makes a very valid point.  Not everyone is sitting around with wads of cash in their pocket waiting to purchase the first PS4 or Xbone that gets put out on the shelf.  Wii U is very affordable for the average ordinary family and is far more appealing when bundled in with a couple games.  Keep in mind, not everyone is a hardcore gamer that is waiting for Titanfall or whatever exclusives PS4/Xbone offers. 

[Goodtwin]

Wii U is on pace to sell Dreamcast numbers.  Nintendo should be more worried than their fans.  We still get Mario Kart, Smash Bros, X, Bayonetta 2 , and Zelda regardless if the Wii U sells ten million units or fifty million units.  

[Bonac]

Wii U is on pace to sell Dreamcast numbers.  Nintendo should be more worried than their fans.  We still get Mario Kart, Smash Bros, X, Bayonetta 2 , and Zelda regardless if the Wii U sells ten million units or fifty million units.

This

[Law212]

If all we get is Bayonetta 2, X, donkey kong and Mario kart 8 (and smash bros) then im good.

[3Dude]

Wii U is on pace to sell Dreamcast numbers.  Nintendo should be more worried than their fans.  We still get Mario Kart, Smash Bros, X, Bayonetta 2 , and Zelda regardless if the Wii U sells ten million units or fifty million units.

Unfortunately... Thats not true. There is a very real possibility of some of those (only 2 of them really...) being cancelled...

[Octimus]

Wii U is on pace to sell Dreamcast numbers.  Nintendo should be more worried than their fans.  We still get Mario Kart, Smash Bros, X, Bayonetta 2 , and Zelda regardless if the Wii U sells ten million units or fifty million units.  

the question is why the sell of WiiU are bad and thos of the Wii since it lunched was very good, after all the wii U brings a lot of new things

 

 

 

 

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Edited by Octimus, 15 December 2013 - 02:06 PM.

[matuuu2006]

Unfortunately... Thats not true. There is a very real possibility of some of those (only 2 of them really...) being cancelled...

 

What!!!!!!!!!!???????        X and Bayonetta2???????  

Edited by matuuu2006, 15 December 2013 - 01:13 PM.

[Dharmanator]

Unfortunately... Thats not true. There is a very real possibility of some of those (only 2 of them really...) being cancelled...

Wait. .. what? !

The only 2 that could possibly be cancelled would be x and bayonetta.

And those are the only interesting IP's.

But I will buy Zelda no matter what.

Anyway, those being cancelled would be crappy.

Can't call it a killer blow. Those would be niche games. But they need some of those.

[TheUltimateWaddleDee]

Unfortunately... Thats not true. There is a very real possibility of some of those (only 2 of them really...) being cancelled...

Why would any of those be cancelled? One game is going to be massive and takes a long time to be developed, so not a lot can be shown, and the other has been playable at just about every trade show that they could have gone to (PAX and Comic-Con). They are both being developed at a normal rate. We just haven't seen much because there isn't much to show yet.