Before the Launch of the Wii U, Nintendo was confident of a successful launch. Boasting a Mario game at launch and in addition to much high quality titles, you can see where that confidents was coming from. March is almost over, marking the end of the Wii U launch window – so how well did the Wii U go?
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
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.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
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."
So Wii U is not doing that bad as far as console sales compared to other launches, but wow I am a little surprised at 3rd party software. Nintendo needs to get off the pot and PUSH the Wii U. I have written Nintendo about their crappy marketing for the system. They say they listen, but I don't think they do. Some marketing team is making tons of money off of Nintendo, when they should not even have jobs at all. Let a Nintendo fan handle the marketing and I bet sales would be MUCH better.
Well, the launch was seemingly a moderate success. The months after were a nasty game drought with lower hardware sales. March was a saving grace month for the console, as some nice games came out for it and a solid looking rerelease was announced. Now we have Pikmin, Wonderful 101 and the upcoming E3 show (as well as any and all digital games that come out in between).
Yea I'll give em that, they had a much better launch than their rivals. The thang is they need to fix this launch deal next time around, a couple of other IPs need the launch spotlight besides Mario & Link, give other franchises a fightin chance. Make the BIGGEST 3rd party games a priority, & get to work on Smash Bros a lot sooner instead of beginning after another project, poor Sakurai...
The launch was pretty great IMO (I really enjoyed NSMBU and ZombiU) but since then, they have failed to keep the momentum going in both hype and software. As mentioned by others, their marketing...where to being. It's a train wreck and Nintendo use to be pretty awesome at exciting gamers. Hope they regroup and possibly enlist some fresh blood in their crew to turn it around.
Even with announcements at E3, we need games out now or extremely soon, not just a few first party trailers with a TBA release date. There is plenty of potential in the system, they just need to harness its strengths and promote it.
the reality is what wiiu is in serius trouble,when read somebody tring to see how is no too bad this is what i see.