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Wow that's a shame, I like Zombie U...

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It's stories like this which put down the interest in a console. Unfortunately, these days, media attention is the largest sales driving or killing factor.

A lot of people have become zombified into the "CoD/Battlefield" scene which pretty much are the "major" games each year that are "must haves" because they have so much media attention.


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It is unfortunate; I want the console, but it's hard to motivate me to buy it when the news is like this.

In the end Nintendo isn't getting third party support, so they need to prop up their console themselves- and they just aren't doing that well enough yet. But remember the 3DS' first year post-launch...


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Posted by Nicole
It is unfortunate; I want the console, but it's hard to motivate me to buy it when the news is like this.
Oh, the console is pretty awesome. There's a few great exclusives for it.

In the end Nintendo isn't getting third party support, so they need to prop up their console themselves- and they just aren't doing that well enough yet. But remember the 3DS' first year post-launch...
Oh yes. The 3DS didn't do too well, yet it managed to recover as more and better titles came out.


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I have a Wii U and it is a pretty good console. Remember that Nintendo also did not do a good markering strategy for the Wii U.

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The 3DS came out 3 years ago; judging by the DS lasting about 7 years it seems strange they'd rush to replace their portable hardware so early.

At the very least I wouldn't expect a replacement until the 3DS turns 5, even if the Wii U is considered beyond reprieve even by Nintendo itself... >_>


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What I'd like to see, is the sales figures once Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. 4 are released.


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This kind of defeatist attitude pisses me off. I bought my Wii U back in September because I believed the console was good enough. Now that it's being declared a failure not six months after my purchase pisses me off because it feels like I wasted my money.

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Posted by Trelior
This kind of defeatist attitude pisses me off. I bought my Wii U back in September because I believed the console was good enough. Now that it's being declared a failure not six months after my purchase pisses me off because it feels like I wasted my money.
This is where the media is just spinning stories around in a way it wants to.

So a weaker-than-expected sales report is enough to call it a failure? Wasn't the 3DS also called the same when it suffered weaker-than-expected sales too? And look where it is now.


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I hope you're right @Gywall.

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Posted by Trelior
I hope you're right @Gywall.
As do I. I wouldn't be too happy to find it went down the drain, especially considering both myself and my cousin have a Wii U system - so there's two in this household.


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What I'd like to see, is the sales figures once Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. 4 are released.

That's the key question here- Nintendo can't do anything really other than try to bolster the current console, they must know trying to replace it early would only kill their console business outright.


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Meh - dropping forecasted sales isn't admittance to the system being a flop... Not saying the system ISN'T a flop, just that Nintendo isn't admitting to it.

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Well, it's Nintendo's own fault if it flopped. Slow release of new games, nearly non-existant third-party support and f*ing slow VC releases. They really need to ramp these things up.

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The 3DS just had a slow start, but it still was way better than it's competition and as soon it's price became more competitive (it wasn't as overpriced anymore), it started to sell well.

The naming is pretty bad too. There was way too much confusion amongst not so game savy people who were buying consoles, which was a pretty huge part of why Wii succeeded as it did. A lot of people got mistaken into thinking Wii U was a console accessory rather than a successor. Maybe I grab a Wii U if it starts selling for even cheaper but meh, I'm mostly PC gaming nowadays. :/

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