Sales for Nintendo’s newest system the Wii U have been plummeting and according to gamasutra the Wii U sold well under 100,000 units last month. This isn’t the first time Nintendo has experienced rough patches, the Game Cube did equally as bad in its early days, and in fact right before the original Wii launched Nintendo had its worse sales month. Now, I believe that can be attributed to people were waiting for the Wii to come out. But, right now the Wii U is putting up numbers month after month consistent with this time period and this is a new system, doesn’t bode well for the company
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
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.
a better tittle: Is Wii U going to become the next Virtual Boy?
No it isn't. You know for every doom/gloom article that comes out, they almost always forget to look at history. Same with the commenters.
You want to compare the Wii U to the Virtual Boy? Alright, let's do that.
The Virtual boy was a fundamentally flawed machine, the 3D didn't work as well as it should and the graphics could only be projected in black and red pixels. So its designated "gimmick" was too broken to really be enjoyed.
The Wii U's "gimmick" is the controller's touch screen which actually does exactly what it is meant to do, be used for touch inputs and project content on the screen and on top of this the console is backwards compatible with the Wii.
It's been THREE months, since this latest console came out. How about we give it a year and give it some more software releases before spelling out its end? One month of low sales does not justify it as such when the Vita has been suffering the same problem for over a year.
EDIT: The PS3 didn't start well, the 3DS didn't start well and both of those platforms are now considered roaring successes. If people gave the Wii U and Vita the same time of day, then we wouldn't have ridiculous Pachter-like headlines like these.
6 months after the likes of Mario Kart and Wii U Fit launch the sales figures for the Wii U will look very different to what they look like now, i.e. a hell of a lot larger.
Didnt the PS3 have nothing but doom and gloom articles when it was first released and look at how successful it turned out. The only problem with the Wii U at the moment is that there are no games that would justify buying the console but just wait till Zelda U and other exclusives get released.
Nintendo has some of most reliable hardware (however underpowered) and coolest innovations (motion control, tablet control, spawned and will spawn copy cats) out there right now. Software choices on the Wii were so limited after MARIO, METROID, and ZELDA there wasn't much to choose from. The Wii U is looking at the same problem. Once some of the better titles release I hope/think we see better sales.
They just can't wait so long after a console launches because Sony is going to announce their new console in a few days and Microsoft is sure to follow them sooner rather than later.