Will Nintendo Attempt to Rebrand its Dying Wii U Console?

The Wii U has been struggling ever since the end of the launch rush period in 2012. The console managed to sell less than a million in the next 9 month...GLOBALLY, even with high quality exclusives being released. All hopes for the consoles future were pinned on its second holiday season performance. The latest Mario game, SM3DW, received universal critical acclaim and was expected to revive the Wii U this November. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be as far as the US is concerned as the console sold a paltry figure as compared to its competitors, even with a much better games lineup. Furthermore, SM3DW did not manage to make even the top 10 list of the games sold in the month. So what does does the future holds for the Wii U now?

[Klad]

Another Doom & Gloom article, Moving on...

[mii-gamer]

a motley fool article nothing to see here.

[Gamer78]

Yep Mario didn't have historical sales figures for the 8 days that it was out in November. The system is definitely a failure, smh. These articles are becoming more desperate it seems. There are more games coming in the next few months that will further the momentum that has already started with the end of November. The Wii U will sell just fine especially considering there are no new games coming for PS4 or Xbox One. We can only wait and see.

[Donjune]

Have to agree.. Enough already!

[Realplaya]

I guess when you are doing better than before your dying.

[Chrischi1988]

Yeah, thats a common law you learn, when you study international business or other business related major.

Articles like that become more and more desperate to downplay the Wii U. Just so if somebody, who is not informed well enough, reads those headlines about Nintendo being doomed all the time, will surely scare away potential customers...

[Belking]

doom and gloom is what they do on a daily basis here. All you ever see is the sky is falling articles all day everyday. Nintendo isn't going anywhere.

[jcnba28]

Well they can't change the name obviously so they have to work with what they have. I think they should drop the "Wii" in the "Wii U" logo and just use the blue "U" for most of its advertising. That way, it sounds new and it shouldn't confuse people who still think it's an add-on for the original Wii.

Sony did a similar rebranding of the PS3 logo, they got rid of the "Playstation3" in that ugly spiderman font and replaced it with just "PS3" in a sharper font.

[Angerfist]

Thank God for handheld is what iwata thinks probably. Nintendo just needs better third party support but that will never happen. And it's just pointless for ambitious developers to focus on the WiiU if you know it will only sell 100k.

[BullyMangler]

nope . the new splintercell, Rayman legends, and the new Deus Ex human Revolution already proved the wiiU to be the superior gaming system over any sony, microsoft or PC machine because of the gamepad << fact . its already bee proven .. any game on the wiiU if made correctly is more immersive experience .

nintendo wins

[Tito08]

Yeah, keep telling that to yourself GirlymangLer.

[Angerfist]

IF they do but who does bother with that system when there is more money to made elsewhere. thats just the sad truth.

[Chrischi1988]

But it is true, the Gamepad adds extra. Games like Splinter Cell and Deus Ex offer the best gameplay of any console, maybe not PC, but if we only compare consoles. I mean, graphics does not equal gameplay. Watchdogs will be best on Wii U, why, because the guy is a hacker, who hacks with his smartphone, smartphone controlls you can best simulate with the gamepad, so it is the best gameplay. Keep telling yourself, that playing games like Skyrim on PS3 is better than on PC. If we talk Gameplay, the Wii U offers the same controlls, like PS4, but with a little extra and that extra, makes it a better game, gameplay-wise, if used correctly, like in Watch Dogs for example, or Splintercell or Deus Ex, of course it doesnt offer much more in a CoD game, even though, there the off TV Multiplayer is also offering the best expierience, one plays on TV, the other on the Gamepad, everybody has a full screen to play, that is fair and the most fun, there is no denying that, all you got as an answer is graphics, which are better, but not to a degree, like with CoD on PS3 and old Wii, they are small, they exsist, but not so big, as all of you act like.

@Angerfist:

Hey, but if they can make money on the Wii U version, they could make money on all plattforms, it only makes no sense, if they actually lose money on the game. They dont need to make as much as on PS4 for example, but they can focus on all plattforms, we are talking about a port here, thats not too expensive and if the install base grows a little further, it will be profitable for Devs and then the games will come, no need for being the biggest moneymaker, as long as there is enough money.

By the way, you got your name from the DJ Angerfist from Netherlands? Or just gamername?

[Theyellowflash30]

Holy Crap, the Montley Fool wrote two Wii U Doom articles in one day. Holy crap....how do they keep on getting approved?

[Chrono]

It's Motley Fool and they're experts in business.

[Theyellowflash30]

No they are not. They own stock in Apple and Microsoft and write sensationalist articles to detract investors from Nintendo to their products: Microsoft and Apple.

Don't be a sheep and get caught up in their lies. They are the same people who said the 3DS is doomed over and over.

Then they said the 3DS is doomed when a d-pad and buttons attachment gets released for the iPhone.

They are sensationalist idiots that purposely leave out japanese data and other information to make their arguments.

LOL, experts in business my a$$, they said the 3DS is doomed a couple weeks ago. 3DS is the best selling dedicated gaming device in the world right now.