Maybe WiiU stands for the sound of the ambulance coming to try and resuscitate it back to life.
"WiiiiiUuuuuu WiiiiiUuuuuu WiiiiiUuuuu"
You can't be serious.
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Maybe WiiU stands for the sound of the ambulance coming to try and resuscitate it back to life.
"WiiiiiUuuuuu WiiiiiUuuuuu WiiiiiUuuuu"
Awwww
So who is the first person going to be to create a topic on Tilmen's recent tweets? It would go hand in hand with this thread.
Nope not me......
Bullshit rumors doesn't deserve its own thread.If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
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good wii u demo game does not exist and will never exist
If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
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Speak for yourself, I've sold the console to more than a couple of people, all they need to play is NintendoLand, others have said the same thing in the thread.
omg lol, this wouldn't be surprising to be honest, but if they WiiU wasn't in such a bad position this couldn't be achievable, at all.
Bullshit rumors doesn't deserve its own thread.
Wii Ultra.
In my heart, it's what it is.
Have we ever thought that maybe *gasp* Nintendo is to be blamed?
If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
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"WiiU" doesn't sound iterative, sounds like a special version.
These do:
Gameboy --> Gameboy Advance
PlayStation 3 --> PlayStation 4
Nintendo --> Super Nintendo
While I don't disagree that the general public can be pretty uninformed with this stuff, I think if you need your customers to explain something you're trying to sell you already failed.The thing is the general public is particularly stupid and ignorant when it comes to consoles to begin with - you've really got to mollycoddle or rely on other non-idiots who know what they're talking about to explain it succinctly and correctly. So many times I've been with gaming friends and they've spouted completely wrong information, especially on consoles they don't own. Throw in a name like Wii U and a general disinterest in the world actually figuring out stuff for themselves and you've got a recipe for mass confusion.
It seems this is the norm. What?!?
I blame the name
Wii U is horrible. Why not Super Wii? Fuck
I don't think people look at failing products as an opportunity for a company to reflect and create a better product in the long term - although you're right in that it should be. People prefer the error be in the messaging and advertising of a product because it's easier to remedy in the short term.I don't think people understood my point: I agree, marketing matters, and I tried to take time to make sure it was clear I know it's not insignificant.
But so does the product itself (and yes, I'm also including the games in this). When a product is selling as poorly as the Wii U, it's typically a combination of problems: advertising may be wrong, the hardware might be unappealing, the software might not be compelling. What fans of a particular product or company will often do is shift all the blame to messaging/advertising because they don't want to say that the product itself is at all at fault.
By contrast, I would argue it's better to err on the assumption that the product is wrong, because that's something Nintendo can directly control much more readily. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo work with advertising firms to handle their messaging, but 100% of the final hardware is in their hands and much easier to correct for future products if something is wrong this generation.
If your advertising is bad, really the most you can do is fire your current ad agency and hope your next one is better. If the goal is to make Nintendo a better company, focus on bettering the things Nintendo actually has control over: software and particularly hardware.
Um....
Bad Name
Price
No Games
Bad Hardware (Console)
Non-Intuitive Hardware (Controller)
Bad Account System
..are all extremely frequent criticisms of Nintendo that show up in pretty much every Wii U thread regardless or relevancy. "We" have been blaming Nintendo pretty often, thank you very much.
The thing is the general public is particularly stupid and ignorant when it comes to consoles to begin with - you've really got to mollycoddle or rely on other non-idiots who know what they're talking about to explain it succinctly and correctly. So many times I've been with gaming friends and they've spouted completely wrong information, especially on consoles they don't own. Throw in a name like Wii U and a general disinterest in the world actually figuring out stuff for themselves and you've got a recipe for mass confusion.
I'm not following you.
Companies downplaying the competitors and even being aggressive about it really shouldn't shock anyone, all I'm saying is that is not the problem with the WiiU right now.
I can only speak anecdotally for my gamer friends - and I have a few - but every single one that owned a Wii, which was most of them, either traded it for a PS3/Xbox years ago or gave it away with no intention of upgrading to the Wii U after the OG Wii being abandoned. The more casual ones are having their needs met by iOS - even my Mario and Pikmin-obsessed friend wouldn't dream of dropping the cash on one of these, I'm lending it to her when I go home for a month soon - and the more dedicated gamers are all preordering PS4's..
Yeah. I think people forget how suddenly and unceremoniously they abandoned the Wii - I'll agree that the brand in the home console space at least has become close to irrelevant. All the 'core' (I do hate that word) gamers moved onto 360 and PS3 and the rest don't need a console anymore! The sooner they create some kind of handheld that can output to a TV the better - they clearly can't support two machines properly. That said even then they'd be struggling to shed the 'kiddy handheld' image and transition to something more appealing to the tech/older crowd.And see, that's another issue Nintendo does not want to recognize. Their brand is irrelevant now. IF someone must have Nintendo games, then by golly, the 3DS is all they need. Most casuals have moved on to IOS. Only 1 device is going to be in people's pockets and its smartphones.
If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
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Yeah. I think people forget how suddenly and unceremoniously they abandoned the Wii - I'll agree that the brand in the home console space at least has become close to irrelevant. All the 'core' (I do hate that word) gamers moved onto 360 and PS3 and the rest don't need a console anymore! The sooner they create some kind of handheld that can output to a TV the better. They clearly can't support two machines properly. That said even then they'd be struggling to shed the 'kiddy handheld' image and transition to something more appealing to the tech/older crowd.And see, that's another issue Nintendo does not want to recognize. Their brand is irrelevant now. IF someone must have Nintendo games, then by golly, the 3DS is all they need. Most casuals have moved on to IOS. Only 1 device is going to be in people's pockets and its smartphones.
I was in Best Buy a couple of days ago and was walking through the games section when I saw a young couple pick up a Wii U box. They kept glancing back and forth between the box and the rack of Wii/Wii U accessories next to it, and the woman asked her husband what controllers they needed to get.
I stopped and told them that if they already had a Wii, their Wii Remotes should work with it. The man pointed to the picture of the Gamepad on the Wii U box and asked, "Then what's this?" I explained that it was the controller for the new system and had a touchscreen that was used in many games, as well as the concept of Off-TV play (which they thought sounded awesome). The woman then asked me what the difference between Wii U and Wii games was; I told her that the Wii U was a new HD Nintendo console and that Wii U games look much better than Wii games (and also that that Wii games aren't being made anymore). They wound up buying the Wii U and a couple of new remotes.
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Being competitive is one thing, even moneyhatting but signing a contract to sabotage the competitor is just ridiculous.
Is it also the norm to go into a contract with Activision to tell them to make make the graphics and frame rate worst for the PS4 than the Xbone? Would you go "oh well it happens".
I am afraid of the answer.
If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
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Speak for yourself, I've sold the console to more than a couple of people, all they need to play is NintendoLand, others have said the same thing in the thread.
I've called this for you.
If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
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If I didn't hear it before you would have gotten an 8, maybe a 9
Damn it, since no one took the bait, here it is. Please don't ban me.