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.
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.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
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.