Virtual Katz Writes: Looking at the sales of the Wii U the abysmal figures are enough to make any person sick. While Nintendo doesn’t seem to be as frustrated as the retailers and consumers are there is surely an amount of uncertainty surrounding the future of the console for the Big N. The Wii U has completely underwhelmed the market and struggled to invigorate sales even with price cuts in the United Kingdom over the last few weeks. Reports surfaced Friday, via CVG, that cuts would be coming to the Nintendo Next-Gen again trying anything to get sales figures up for the struggling console. Why are so many retailers slashing the price on their own in the United Kingdom, but not here in the United States? Better yet, why is it that Nintendo was so eager to cut the price of the 3DS, but is so hesitant to with the Wii U? All these questions are swirling, and there seems to be little answer from anyone as to what can be done to help the struggling console.
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.
im sure they will come around to it,nintendo has amazing franchises that i will not skip on. granted, im saving for a ps4 but along the line i dont want to miss out on zelda/metroid/mario/starfox.
Taking a page out of the 3DS's launch would mean slashing the price when there are a steady stream of games coming out. This is not the time for Nintendo to slash the Wii U price, as there is no stream coming. As history has proven, a price drop without games coming out on a steady basis is only a short-term solution and that's it. Price drops without steady software means sales return to levels they were before the price drop a few weeks later.
What Nintendo need to do is advertise the crap out of it and explain in commercials that it is a new console not a add on.
Price cut showed little affect because either consumers are confused its a add on for the Wii or they are not even aware it exist.
The sales were never as low in the US as they were in the UK. Besides, a price drop in the UK was not even effective to boosting sales. There was an article about this only a few days ago.
In my honest opinion, they should just find a way to drop the wii-u brand and brand the consoles as wii 2, along with all the box-arts for newer and current games.
I did a little survey on our university campus and non-students: asked each person what they thought of the wii-u and if they were going to purchase it. About 7/10 of the population I interviewed thought that the wii-u was just another add-on to the current wii.
Perception is key and this is one area (aside from the lack of games) where nintendo is failing with the wii-u.