Punching Beta: Why are the Japanese giants in hot water?
It’s no secret that Nintendo has seen a massive loss in the past few months since the introduction of their Wii U console. But fortunately, Nintendo has been saved by the sales of their handheld and software sales, albeit just barely saved. So why is the Wii U failing to sell? Are customers looking at Nintendo in the wrong light?
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.
I would argue that people are just still largely unaware or uninterested (though mostly the former). It's a neat console. I just thought Nintendo rather piss-poorly managed to promote the damn thing when it came out almost a year ago. Launch sales weren't even all that terrible. It sold nearly three million units in two months. Then the sales plateaued and went kaput because Nintendo failed to keep momentum.
Beyond that there have been few large scale software releases until right up to now and the best third party support it's been seeing is from indie developers since the big name devs feel it necessary to release gimped ports at full price.
So if you want an answer for "Why?" just ask your average joe, would you buy a Wii U? They will probably give you one of two reasons.
1. What's a Wii U?
2. Does it have the games I want to play?
3ds is a beast tho ...!!
Considering the the 3DS is the biggest selling piece of gamin hardware on the market right now. Topped with more recent news the Pokemon X and Y sold out preorders sold out in Japan in 9 hours. That will more than make up for the slow sales of the Wii U. In the mean time it is true that Nintendo wont have the astronomical profits of the the Wii era Nintendo is a long long way away from being bankrupt. To prove this to ignorant people they ever released an extremely in depth loot at their sales data. You can find that article on Destructoid. According to Nintendo they have 6 billion dollars in back up cash for hard times. So when they post a 30 million dollar quarterly loss and people scream doom and gloom. All the people that know what they are talking about can sit back and laugh. Nintendo is going to be around for a long long time.
Nintendo got lucky with the Wii by attracting non gamers. The same non gamers who played it for a month and then put it away to gather dust. The same non gamers who have now gone back to whatever they were doing before the Wii came out never to return. Lightening doesnt strike twice and so now they are competing yet again on the same field as SONY and MS and we all know how thats gonna go.
Well, when you do the biggest 180 of all time (bigger than Xbone's), you're surely going to get confused people. NES-GameCube were all hardcore consoles, awesome. Wii was marketed as a family and fitness gaming machine. Nintendo, out of all the stupid things they could have done, they went with the most idiotic, and reverted back to the hardcore. Like I've been saving forever, Nintendo should have made another console like the Wii for about another generation or two. Exactly like the Wii, but now with HD Mario on the side!
That, or should have priced the Wii U at $200, $250 the most.