Nintendo expects to sell fewer Wii U and 3DS units than originally claimed, according to reports this morning. The company says it sold three million Wii U units through December, but slashed its forecast of 5.5 million Wii U units sold by the end of March to just four million in all. On the Wii U software side, Nintendo is now forecasting 16 million units in the same timeframe, a number that’s down by roughly a third from original expectations.
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."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
Oh great, more of this crappy rhetoric.
The sales have been adequate, decent or otherwise just okay. NOT. POOR. Get that freaking straight. This thing is selling at a minor loss at a considerably higher than normal price in a faulty economy, AND it sold faster than its competition's predecessors in the first two months.
Well the Wii-U hasn't had any of it's big franchsies release on the console or even be shown for that matter.
When a new Mario, Zelda, Pokemon (if ever), Super Smash Bros., & Metorid all hit the Wii-U then we can say if it's going to be a success of not.
I seriously doubt the Wii-U is going to have the same success and appeal as the Wii did, simply because the mass appeal just isn't there like the Wii had (although I wasn't on that hype train).
So I think Nintendo will be disappointed in their lifetime sales compared to the Wii, and will try to focus on getting that same Wii type appeal during their next console. However, I think the Wii-U will be the core console gamers have wanted from Nintendo since the N64 (gamecube was great, but N64 was the last great 3rd party supporter), and hopefully that's something NIntendo tries to keep from now on.
The bigger concern with the Wii U is that when the X720 and PS4 are released, it will not be able to keep up with the ports to match those 2 monster consoles and it will be the Wii all over again. Developers will ignore their big franchises and Nintendo will have to resort to Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda to save their console.
can someone explain something to me, the wii u is not sold out in stores i think its doing pretty bad, but i keep reading that the sales of the ps3 and xbox 360 were worse, im sry but i couldnt find a ps3 for 6 months after it came out...