The Wii U is such a terrible failure of a console, possibly the worst flop since the Sega Dreamcast. It's actually incredibly remarkable: how did Nintendo manage to make one of the biggest selling consoles of all-time, and then follow it up with one of the worst selling consoles of all time with a very similar brand naming? If Nintendo had any brains they would cancel the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild and make it an NX exclusive: Wii U sales are just dead sales at this point. They need to sell a new console, and nothing will sell a new console more than it having a new Zelda exclusive. If this company is going to survive, they need to completely cut their losses from the Wii U (they should have done it last year) and just completely refocus the company on branding, marketing and rolling out the NX, which needs to be a fundamentally different console from the Wii U.
The Wii U is such a terrible failure of a console, possibly the worst flop since the Sega Dreamcast...
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NX is a fucking mobile phone console. The Wii U was Nintendo's last real console. I never got one, but I respect it cause of that. Plays Wii games too.
>and then follow it up with one of the worst selling consoles of all time with a very similar brand naming?
Step 1) never advertise the new console
Step 2) Name it something weird so people wonder if it's even different from the normal Wii or just a slight upgrade
I admit I bought it for Hyrule Warriors.
Had fun with other games, but HW was my main motivator
Here are the Wii U games I own and enjoy.
>Super Mario Bros. U
>Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
>The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
>Bayonetta 1 and 2
>The Wonderful 101
>Pikmin 3
>Super Mario 3D World
>Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
>Super Mario Maker
>Mario Kart 8
>Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
>Yoshi's Woolly World
>Xenoblade Chronicles X
>Hyrule Warriors
>Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
You're just going to say they're all shit, though.
honestly i dont regret buying a wii u, it had a lot of good games that i enjoyed just like my dreamcast.also the BC is a huge plus.
>TP released for GC and Wii
>BotW releases for Wii U and NX
Why wasn't SS released both for Wii and Wii U? Is it because people would buy the Wii U version and complain when it didn't work on their Wii?
SS was garbage thats why
> I have opinions and you need to take them as fact
Why does Sup Forums foster this kind of retardation
Why on earth would you want a SS rerelease?
What could you possibly like about that shitty collection chore-fest
Do you have drain bamage?
If NX is a phone console Nintendo will absolutely die, they can't keep hemorrhaging money.
The main problems with the Wii U were the total lack of marketing, the godawful controller literally no one ever asked for, and the complete lack of games. 1 or 2 good games a year is not good enough. Games kept getting delayed and delayed until people preferred selling off the console rather than waiting for new games. I sold mine a year and a half ago for PSN and Steam money, best gaming decision I made in a long time.
I'm telling you, they HAVE to make Breath of the Wild an NX exclusively because it's the only thing that will move consoles.
I had more than half of those games. I would say the best ones were Pikmin, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 1 and 2 and Tropical Freeze.
Really you've got to understand most of these kinds of games sell well to the extremely dedicated Nintendo fans. But the average consumer just isn't that interested, which is why the sales of the consoles are so awful. I don't care how much you enjoy those games, if the system can't sell, the company has failed the consumers. Another huge problem with the Wii U was just the massive drought of games. For me Smash was a real let down, I ended up going back to Guilty Gear and Street Fighter.
Nintendo can't survive only appealing to their hardcore fans. They don't necessarily need another Wii, but they need to get the average consumer who now primarily plays mobile/ps4/pc games to be interested in Nintendo hardware again.
If they don't do this, it's honestly better for everyone (including Nintendo) if they just stop selling hardware and only publish games.
The truth is there's no reason why all of those games (barring the new StarFox) couldn't be on a PS4, and with better graphics than Wii U. Even Nintendo themselves now admit the screen was a mistake.
>had
See, you're subconsciously recognizing the fact that the console is actually dead.
Where's Splatoon? You gotta play Splatoon!
>See, you're subconsciously recognizing the fact that the console is actually dead.
well it is, i still dont regret buying it.
>See, you're subconsciously recognizing the fact that the console is actually dead
You realise it's been out for 4 years, right?
He meant simultaneous release.
If SS was delayed an released on WiiU as a launch title it would sell a lot of consoles giving it a larger usebase and kept the third party support a little longer, maybe.
Instead they dicided not to betray the people who were expecting the game on Wii, a mistake they're not making again with BotW.
Because op is a faggot.
pretty sure nintendo has a very full bank. the problem resides in consumer trust, they need to get it back with NX, I think this might be their last chance
>Step 1) never advertise the new console
>Step 2) Name it something weird so people wonder if it's even different from the normal Wii or just a slight upgrade
Love the name meme. It sold like shit because kids realized they had nothing to play on Wii besides smash. I knew of its existence but never bought until mid last year because I remember the Wii sucking so much ass.
take a good look at this logo nintendrones because this is nintendos future
Look at all those generic mario and zelda games.
Atleast its good for pedophiles. You can fuck with kiddies through web cam thanks to miiverse.
Owning Sega won't be bad if they can get their ips in check.
I mean, outside of TMS none of those are bad games, but that's also a lot of ports and unambitious sequels. It's no surprise that the Wii U didn't take off with a library like that.
Dreamcast actually had games.
Nintendo cocksuckers can't see when they've been had. It's legitimately sad.
The Wii U is objectively a failed console. This isn't my opinion, it is fact. Forbes even writes articles explaining that it's the worst failure in Nintendo's history, even moreso than the Virtual Boy because of how much money they poured into it.
You realize PS4 and Xbox One were released at roughly the same time and are nowhere close to being dead, right?
Look, I get it: Nintendo has a lot of money. But no matter how much you guys say this, NO COMPANY can survive something like 2 decades of constant money being lost. They have lost hundreds of millions, likely billions at this point, on the Wii U. The NX is their last chance, they have to make a profitable console or else I just don't see how they can possibly continue pushing out consoles. Their market share just shrinks and shrinks every year.
honestly it wouldn't even be that bad.
I'm perfectly ok with playing Breath of the Wild on my PC which is more powerful than my PS4 or the Wii U I sold.
I just can't see the point in buying Nintendo hardware anymore unless they can provide some seriously interesting exclusives on the NX, the Wii U overall was just lacking and can't compete with everyone elses' library. And I say that even despite the exclusives I played and enjoyed.
It's not that great for pedophiles. Kids don't like the Wii U. Better to hunt little kids through Overwatch or something with an actual playerbase.
Wii U has a few good games, but yeah. Dreamcast was way better in terms of library.
WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING WITH NINTENDO
It was advertised
Gimmicks.
The Wii was a massive hit because it appealed to non gamers. Hell just look at the top selling games of the Wii as proof. Fucking Wii fit was their to0 game. Nintendo tried the same thing with the Wiiu, and tried to land the tablet crowd. Shit backfired this time. No one wants the gimmick, and all the soccer moms that purchased a Wii left gaming.
man, that was so terrible
>be sega
>make a fuckton of consoles and extras damaging your consumer trust
>finally make a hit with dreamcast, regaining consumer trust
>oops we ran out of money, cant sustain it anymore
I know they kinda deserved it, but damn, what a terrible timing. The dreamcast was a serious console
What the FUCK do you expect from a nintendo machine exactly?
trust guy here, I agree with ya on consoles
Why'd they never make a Custom Robo 2, Geist 2, and new Metroid for Wii U. I only ever had a GameCube and played the originals of these on there. Why does Nintendo ignore their best exclusives? The fact that Nintendo NX is a phone-console hints that this wont be happening for that "console" either.
The main thing to realize about the Wii was it hit the market at a time before smartphones were popularized enough to capture the casual market with mobile apps.
You can actually see exactly where Wii sales started declining. Coincides perfectly with the release of the first iPhone. The Wii filled a vacuum that the smartphone games have now completely and utterly consumed.
Nintendo has to do what the fans have been fucking begging them to do: focus on their core market. Focus on the people who have been buying their consoles religiously. Focus on the "hardcore gamer". Most kids these days don't even know who the fuck Mario and Link is. And the reason they know about Pokemon now is mostly because of Pokemon Go, which is a Niantic mobile game.
Because out of touch Japanese executives in Nintendo have no idea what the consumer wants. Miyamoto has lost his touch too. Iwata struck gold with the DS and Wii, but I think the total failure of the Wii U just lead his health to deteriorate.
Those reports Nintendo was shutting down Wii U production were lies and were belayed later by Nintendo.
That's sad then because they actually should stop Wii U production. No one wants it, the market is already flooded with used Wii Us people got bored with.
They need to just stop doing stupid shit and refocus on the new console. Completely cut the cord on the Wii U and just stop pretending it exists, functionally it's a non-existent console. Focus on marketing the NX HARD, no matter what it is, even if it is a shitty mobile console, just stop pretending the Wii U is going to make any money and realize the NX is their last Hail Mary.
If they can successfully launch the NX and have it gain any kind of sizable market share, there might be hope for the future of Nintendo. Otherwise I would expect the NX to be the last Nintendo console and to be playing Super Mario Universe on my PC in Donald Trump's America.
YOU'RE PLAYING WITH DOUR.
You're wrong on so many fronts. Instead, if NX fails, you will be playing Mario Infinite Runner on your phone in Hillary's America
custom robo and geist sold like shit on the gamecube
No more, I dont want no more nightmares.
>mario, iwata and luigi stand in formation as they await to be exegguted by a firing squad
It only gets worse from here, friend, not better.
This.
Sales matter. It's one of the main reasons why we aren't getting a new F-Zero besides Miyamoto
Sauce please
Yes but fans have this delusion that releasing those games will sell gangbusters when it wouldn't even move shit example F-zero it was a great game but lets face it is has a small fan base same with Metroid only difference is their fans are just very loud.
I for one prefer to dream of a future that isn't totalitarian and awful.
even if the Democrats pull mass voter fraud and get Hillary in, she will just die in 2 years or less from a severe seizure, no 2nd Amendment even needed. Then we'll have Cuckold President Kaine to deal with. Try not to have nightmares about that America.
>how did Nintendo manage to make one of the biggest selling consoles of all-time, and then follow it up with one of the worst selling consoles of all time with a very similar brand naming?
Casuals moved to FB games and mobile shit
Sony didn't trip on its own feet like last gen
Motion controls were a fad
No marketing
the only remarkable thing is that you pretend to be a gamer but you only care about sales and money you don't make.
Snopes denies the leaked med records indicating she has a seizure disorder though.
You are really into it. That is some real hostility there.
Did Nintendo shoot your mother?
>Head of Nintendo U.S. wore a Samus pin at the 2013 game awards.
I agree with OP. Its popular enough that heads of Nintendo wear pins of it and don't market new games of it for some reason. And who really knows about Custom Robo and Geist, it might sell tons cause Nintendo is starting to fail with their DK/Mario rehashes. Back to the GC/Wii glory days of better games. Only then could they compete with PS4/X1 Triple A exclusives. A risk must be taken or they're done.
Is this the hourly NINTENDOOOMED thread?
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>Most kids these days don't even know who the fuck Mario and Link is.
That is not only Nintendo's problem, it is now the industries greatest existential crisis.
Nintendo needs to make a console, a Nintendo console, a must buy for every household with a young child. They must answer the question: "Why get your child a phone/tablet when you cna get them a Nintendo". I believe this to be the true impetus behind the NX.
The NX is intended to put a gaming console back where shoddy tablets and smartphones have parked themselves both in the living room and outside of it.. Yes they are cheap, but the experience is shallow and uninspiring and will be the eventual death of the entire industry if kids never grow up knowing what a real game is.
For the NX to succeed, it must do the basics of tablets well: Browsing/Video/Netflix/Youtube, perhaps social media. And I mean WELL. It must put the current interfaces to shame in speed and convienience. AND it must also, speedily and conveniently boot immediately into traditional, hardware control supported video games, And it must integrate these games back out to web again, just as intuitively and conveniently.
A kid with an NX MUST become the envy of all other children around him. His device must be a shining digital flamethrower in the land of smart-device candles. His games and rich applications must put his peers shoddy apps to shame -- as they should be. He must walk as a digital patrician in a sea of ignorant i-plebs.
Only by doing that can Nintendo save themselves, and save the video game industry. If they fail, may God have mercy on us all.
The Wii U would have been a success if it was called Wii 2 or Wii II.
>They must answer the question: "Why get your child a phone/tablet when you cna get them a Nintendo". I believe this to be the true impetus behind the NX.
There really is no reason though. A phone/tablet has far more value due to how many different things it can do, which the technically incompetent Japanese men at Nintendo would struggle to imitate. 3DS does browsing, Youtube and "video" but it's a joke, especially due to the 240p screen. While phones have thousands of cheapo games released frequently, Nintendo puts out a couple expensive games every couple months, but it's no use since normies can't distinguish a good game from bad and would rather pay less for a time waster on the go than something that requires more effort because it's more complex. Nintendo is doomed.
>NX is a tablet meme
Stop
Wii U is great if you don't like video games.
You can use it as a door stop.
Why did I buy this shit.
>NX is VR
>Remake of Mario 64 where you're the lakitu cameraman
If it isn't then Nintendo is dead, because it sure won't be stronger than xbone scorpio
I don't think you did.
>ever implying the Scorpio will sell well
L
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Why get a scorpio when you can get a PC?
if youre a normie too dumb to build a pc
The simple fact is the Wii came out a time when casuals still looked to their TV for bullshit fun.
The Wii U came out at a time when casuals didn't care about console gaming anymore because of the mobile market. Nintendo didn't market hard enough to the hardcore crowd to make up for it.
I've been contemplating suicide ever since.
It was just that bad. Just such a pile of shit that it's hard to comprehend. Even the Vita sold more.
The Vita. A shit handheld.
What happened to my console, Nintendo? What happened?
Kill me.
Can you post a timestamped pic of your wii u?
You fall for the wii u meme? Need a support group?
I'm so sorry.
I don't have a Wii U.
There are 8 Wii U games worth playing.
Xenoblade Chronicles X
The Wonderful 101
Bayonetta 2
Smash 4
Mario Kart 8
Splatoon
DK Tropical Freeze
Pikmin 3
That's it. The rest range from mediocre garbage.
Wii U doesn't have its own Zelda game besides a shitty musou and doesn't have a proper 3D Mario game. Thats like the bare ass minimum for a nintendo console and it couldn't even do that. Easily the worst nintendo console ever aside from virtual boy.
When its price is reasonable it will
>Sup Forums owning a wii u
>anyone owning that abortion
lel
How much will it be?
>admitting to shitposting this fast
Come on try a bit harder the next time.
15 one-million sellers
Dodged a bullet, my man. It'd be pretty depressing to know you paid money for that garbage.
Probably 599 US DOLLARS to start
>with a very similar brand naming?
That was actually the problem.
The Wii U had a stronger appeal to "core gamers" while the Wii appealed mostly to ultracasuals who just liked the level of interaction offered by motion controls.
Sticking the Wii name on a more traditional console made people think it was another gimmick console (well, it was, but the tablet gimmick was far less of a problem than the motion control gimmick).
Doesn't help that neither console had any fucking games.
OKAY THANKS. THIS IS NINTENDO REPORTING IN WE ARE NOW CHANGING EVERYTHING THANKS TO YOUR SHITTY POST FAGGOT.
Ok.
>he fell for the "Wii U games run at 1080p 60 fps" meme
Did you get shilled by Sup Forums?
>You realize PS4 and Xbox One were released at roughly the same time and are nowhere close to being dead, right?
TL;DR: Unofficially, Xbox One is dead.
There are barely any XB1 exclusives coming out, even since the launch. The exclusives weren't good enough to sell the consoles which, on top of the horrible reveal that severely damaged the Xbox brand, makes the situation worse when it comes to selling the XB1. Because of that, developers are afraid to take risks and release their game on a platform that isn't doing well, making the selling of the console even worse. Then factoring the fact that Scorpio would be out soon, devs may completely stop making XB1 games all together and prepare to make games that will push the limits of Scorpio. It's a slippery slope.
And all of their promised XB1 console/firmware improvements since launch (mostly graphics and performance parity with PS4) never materialized. As if Microsoft just gave up on their underpowered, "gimmick first, gaming second" toaster-console.
And all of that could've been avoided if they didn't try to push all that all-in-one millennial faggotry (the "Xbox,on", Xbox TV, and all that), (initial) forced Kinect and (initial) "always online" DRM jewry. XB1's death could have been avoided if they made the console a gaming console first, instead of making it a machine that you could use to watch sports while using Skype and turning it off and on with voice commands that severely gimped it for gaming.
That's what happens when you have some Steve Jobs wannabe making the calls, leading to abysmal failures like XB1 and Windows 8 with forced Metro-millennialshit.
The Wii U was fun with friends when we played Smash.
Then one of them mentioned Melee. I wept, remembering a better system.
>Used to be 1 of biggest console
>failure after failure and lose all money
>Move to PC and use all budget to make PC exclusive
>Is now sucessful again because of Total War
Nintendo PC exclusive when
The Wii U is my biggest disappointment purchase ever. I'll never admit it in person because of the money I spent,but fuck do I regret it. I feel like there's a lot of people like me here, endlessly trying to justify their purchase. Just let go.
Nintendo has no idea how to develop for PC. They'd probably have no settings and have Esc close the game
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if i could go back in time id save money and just get a tablet instead
no games
Thoughts of Nintendo tend to make me move my bowels.
Thought this was an 18+ board. Shouldn't Nintendo discussion be prohibited?
No one here actually bought a child's console, right?
Right?
>they HAVE to make Breath of the Wild an NX exclusively because it's the only thing that will move consoles
No they absolutely cannot do that. They have to be accountable to share holders and consumer confidence is a MAJOR consideration.
Announcing a game for one console and then dropping it completely to move it to another console would cause irreparable damage.
Impressive samefagging going on in this thread.
>they can't keep hemorrhaging money.
I'm pretty sure they can.
Don't underestimate Nintendo delusion. With no games to play, they've gotta do something until the NX comes and goes.
Did you mean Sega Saturn?
I was talking about these
Yeah, It reads like there are only about 5 to 10 people actually responding. And for everyone talking so much shit about Wii U sales numbers they arent that far behind Xbox one in numbers. Ps 4 beats both of them but the other 2 are only about 2 million units apart.
I like my Wii U. Wish the used games sold for cheaper though.
Wii U is dead but this thread should be, too.
RIP Wii U supporters. Sage.
Nintendo fucked the marketing of Wii U and misjudged the marketplace.
As a result, they've been pretty much absent from the main gaming arena this generation.
So in actual fact, Generation 8 has been a great insight into what the gaming landscape would be like without Nintendo.
And it turned out to be a vapid, soulless, boring-as-fuck quagmire.
All these uneducated morons who keep calling out for Nintendo to disappear for good should be careful what they wish for.
Preach it, man!
But, uh, serious question:
When's my Wii U getting games?
I've had every Nintendo console but held off on the wii u. I got one 2 months ago really cheap and have picked up like 10 games really cheap too. I've probably spent £300 for a console with most of its best games which is kinda chump change for me. I'm sad that it didn't have that day 1 buy excitement but I'm extremely happy with it. I've only played 3 games (100 percent completion before moving on guy) and I'm really enjoying it. I think I got it at the right time too as we're so close to breath which is arguably the biggest release for the system. I would have hated waiting for it if I was a day 1 owner though.
TL;DR Now is the best time to buy one if you're on the fence. That player collection or whatever got me 3 games for less than £30
SAUCE
Xbox One also failed, didn't it? Microsoft is putting all their games on WIndows 10 now and the only people who seem to one an Xboner are casuals by console player standards.