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Nintendo Confirms Wii U Has Flopped, Slashes Sales Forecast By ~70%
Posted on 1/17/14 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 1/17/14 at 5:42 pm
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Nintendo has confirmed what we knew already: its unhappy controller/console combo, the Wii U, is a flop. The company said hardware sales of the Wii U had failed to reach its target during the year-end, pushing it into a third consecutive annual loss, Reuters reports.
“We failed to reach our target for hardware sales during the year-end, when revenues are the highest,” said Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, at a shareholder briefing on the sales figures.
With the Wii U failing to shift off shelves — and that despite a $50 price cut last September, to $299 — Nintendo has slashed its global sales forecast for the device for the year to March 31 by almost 70%. It said it’s expecting Wii U sales to number just 2.8 million units over that period. It also cut its sales forecast for its handheld 3DS console to 13.5 million units from 18 million.
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Posted on 1/17/14 at 5:46 pm to stout
I agree with the top comment on reddit. I'd get it for a new Zelda game. $350 for Mario and Luigi? No.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 5:50 pm to LewDawg
They should have stuck with the family friendly Wii console.
It played to a demographic that they largely controlled.
I was going to buy this for the house assuming it was exactly that still. Then I realized it was more of a standalone with a handheld mixed in and lost all interest.
It played to a demographic that they largely controlled.
I was going to buy this for the house assuming it was exactly that still. Then I realized it was more of a standalone with a handheld mixed in and lost all interest.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:00 pm to Mizzoufan26
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They should have stuck with the family friendly Wii console.
It played to a demographic that they largely controlled.
I was going to buy this for the house assuming it was exactly that still. Then I realized it was more of a standalone with a handheld mixed in and lost all interest.
How is the Wii U less family friendly than the Wii?
I enjoy the hell outta mine. Looking forward to the new Donkey Kong, Super Smash and Mario Kart
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:11 pm to Mizzoufan26
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They should have stuck with the family friendly Wii console
They did. Only they did a terrible job of marketing the Wii U. The market they captured with the Wii doesn't look to be the type to rush out and purchase another console. Those that did want a new console thought the Wii U was some sort of accessory.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:14 pm to stout
That's what happens when you don't have your best selling games as launch titles(or released at all, for that matter). Just seems like common sense. They keep doing this over and over again, and it's getting to the point that it seems like they just don't give a frick anymore.
This post was edited on 1/17/14 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:19 pm to brucevilanch
It doesn't help that 3rd party devs say they won't touch the thing. Not many people are going to buy a console to just play Mario and Mario Kart.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:28 pm to brucevilanch
Their strategy of getting people to buy it based on "potential games" that we haven't seen as much as a hint of is really biting them in the arse. Plain arrogance.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:37 pm to sbr2
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Only they did a terrible job of marketing the Wii U. The market they captured with the Wii doesn't look to be the type to rush out and purchase another console. Those that did want a new console thought the Wii U was some sort of accessory.
You hit it right on the head. Hell I am a serious gamer and I follow the hell out of gaming news and I thought it was an accessory for the longest time because all they ever showed was that damn controller.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:39 pm to LewDawg
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I agree with the top comment on reddit. I'd get it for a new Zelda game.
That's why I got a GameCube and a Wii.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:42 pm to The Boat
Fanboys like me will waste all our money on Nintendo no matter how bad the overall product gets, as long s I can multiplayer Mario kart 
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:45 pm to stout
Have a NEW Zelda title ready to go at launch and none of this happens. I can't believe the big wigs at Nintendo were capable of that oversight. To think that they thought that Mario was still carrying the consoles is a little frightening.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:48 pm to sicboy
yup.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:51 pm to Drewbie
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Have a NEW Zelda title ready to go at launch and none of this happens
Yep. Wind Waker HD is fun as hell but I would have held off on getting a Wii U if I had played it on the Gamecube
Didn't the Wii launch with Twilight Princess?
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:55 pm to Cockopotamus
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Didn't the Wii launch with Twilight Princess?
I believe that was a gamecube game before.
ETA: I am wrong. It was released with the Wii.
This post was edited on 1/17/14 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 1/17/14 at 7:00 pm to brucevilanch
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That's what happens when you don't have your best selling games as launch titles(or released at all, for that matter). Just seems like common sense. They keep doing this over and over again, and it's getting to the point that it seems like they just don't give a frick anymore.
They've only done this for the Wii and Wii U. The N64 and Gamecube (an clearly SNES and NES) had fine launch titles.
Why?
Because third parties are ticked Nintendo titles dominate sales 90% of the time. Nintendo gave the window for 3rd parties to launch, and they drop the ball. Is it Nintendo's fault? Sure. But the reason is complicated.
Nintendo games sell Nintendo systems, 3rd parties wanted a piece of the pie now, and they don't deliver. Nintendo was dumb to trust them.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 7:02 pm to sbr2
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They did. Only they did a terrible job of marketing the Wii U. The market they captured with the Wii doesn't look to be the type to rush out and purchase another console. Those that did want a new console thought the Wii U was some sort of accessory.
This is the main reason. Poor marketing, poor reasoning, and they could have made it at least comparable to Sony and MS. At least Wii-360/PS3 level comparable. The big problem with the Wii was physical storage device (and controller to a lesser extent).
The Gamecube was a flop too. Nintendo will be fine.
This post was edited on 1/17/14 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 1/17/14 at 7:10 pm to Freauxzen
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The Gamecube was a flop too. Nintendo will be fine.
The Wii took off because they had something new and different that anyone could do, and they had good marketing.
Now people have realized the Wii was mostly crap outside of a small handful of good titles, and the motion novelty has worn off.
Nintendo can not continue to put out consoles that are so inferior hardware wise and live purely on first part titles. That will be suicide in the long run.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 7:47 pm to Drewbie
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To think that they thought that Mario was still carrying the consoles is a little frightening.
Well, it is by a long shot the highest grossing game series of all time.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 7:52 pm to SG_Geaux
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The Wii took off because they had something new and different that anyone could do, and they had good marketing.
And that's a good thing.
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Now people have realized the Wii was mostly crap outside of a small handful of good titles, and the motion novelty has worn off.
It wasn't crap, it just wasn't supported by 3rd parties. And that's sad and Nintendo should do a better job of giving them more relevant tools. It brought more to the console table than many console iterations do, outside of online, and it opened up the market significantly. Did Nintendo capitalize on that? Not at all. And again, that's their fault.
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and the motion novelty has worn off.
Motion novelty can't really wear off with XBOX and PS going in on it as well.
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Nintendo can not continue to put out consoles that are so inferior hardware wise and live purely on first part titles. That will be suicide in the long run.
Eh, the Gamecube was profitable. The Wii U will be profitable in the not to distant future, even with the poor sales. That's how they've worked. And yes, if Nintendo actually used it's warchest to purchase some good second-third parties, it very well could survive on its own. That probably won't happen. Making a console that's just slightly underpowered may be all they need to do. They just need ports, that's all.
The other option is to merge the console and handheld lines. Maybe the Wii U was a test of what that might look like. What if you could get a console and a handheld all in one box with a Nintendo Network VC streaming service of the entire Nintendo back catalog for both?? We can only dream.
This post was edited on 1/17/14 at 7:53 pm
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