MVGN writes "With all of today’s crazy Nintendo announcements one would have to assume that there will be a price cut for their existing home console, Wii U. The Wii U hit store shelves on November 18th 2012 and has only seen one price drop in the systems lifetime. Today, Nintendo made a HUGE splash by not only announcing that they will be developing titles for the smartphone market but they are also hard at work at their next dedicated gaming system, codenamed NX. With all these announcements, we here at MVGN think that it’s only a matter of time before the Wii U sees a price cut."
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And yet this year they made 1.8 billion dollars in revenue from mobile games.
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If you have been anticipating the release of Pokemon Masters on your mobile device, then you should know that the game has launched a bit early.
If you're basing the supposition that there's a price cut coming almost entirely off of the fact that Nintendo announced that they're developing a new console, then I've got some bad news for you...
Nintendo announced this a LONG time ago.
Nintendo stated a while back that they always start on ideas and development for a new console once their latest one has released.
On top of this, at best, the next home console isn't gonna be due out until at LEAST the tail end of 2017.
We know this to be true, because Nintendo has already stated more than once that they are going to continue supporting the Wii U for its full life span.
At only three years old, it's got at least another couple of years left of great games to go before anything new appears to replace it.
I'm not convinced that a price drop would help move units at this point anyways.
Most people who hate on the system don't do so mainly due to price; they do it because third parties don't put out games like Shadows of Mordor on it.
They don't care that it's got great exclusives like Bayonetta 2 and Splatoon, or past-gen multiplats like CoD Ghosts and AC4.[ and I doubt they'd care to get the Wii U even if it did, since the console wouldn't give them super-high-grade realistic graphics]
The only thing that can make the Wii U move units now, is by building up a high enough number of really great surprise games that make people say "okay, mind changed, I gotta have that".
And it's going to take many of them, and I suspect they'll have to be from third parties. You know, collaborative titles.
More idiotic journalism
A price drop and surge in system sales might entice third party developers. It's not Nintendo tat dev houses are against it's the smaller user base.