Forbes- News broke yesterday that Nintendo is revising its projections for the WiiU downward as the console isn’t living up to sales expectations. Nintendo originally forecasted 5.5M WiiU sales through March, but has now cut that number to 4M. Software sales predictions have also been trimmed back by at least a third as well.
What’s the problem here? On the surface, it would seem that Nintendo had a whole holiday season to themselves with no other new consoles on the market to compete with.
The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.
I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
poppycock.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Wii U over 3 million now?
Could be wrong. 7_7
This crap is getting pathetic.
20 articles like this one, and one even claiming that Sony is planning their latest reveals around Nintendo's announcements, as though somehow, the perceived failures of Nintendo has Sony swooping in and snatching up all of the 'poor abused Nintendo fans who are waiting for a savior'. (Which apparently is a machine that can only cost significantly more than the Wii U if the silly rumored specs are to be believed.)
It's the choir, preaching to the choir.
Problem is, choirs don't preach well. They're just good at singing praises about what they believe in.
They should stick to that. Because this crap is Pathetic.
Six Reasons the WiiU is Struggling
No games, No games, No games, No games, No games, No games
Typical Forbes idiocy by saying their competitors will release consoles that blow it out of the water.
A GTX 560ti equivalent (equivalent to the rumored downclocked and partially stripped ATI 7850) doesn't blow the Wii U out of the water.
It's 1/4th or less of the power that was needed to run the Samaritan and Watch Dogs demos, ~ 1/10th the power of the 2 GTX 690's, and probably ~1/15th the power of what the GTX 7 series will put out when they arrive BEFORE the 720/PS4 come out.