I hope Nintendo get back into their groove soon.

The Wii U does need some games to make people want it more, plus I was piss that the games I have. Don't support the Pro controller and ZombiU doesn't support it for single players.

you know who hates wii u and thinks there's a crisis? people who don't own wii u.

every single person I know who owns wii u loves it.I know six people all adult core gamers.

all my Sony and Microsoft friends who played mine loved it and are going to own it.some are going to rebuy games just to have off TV play.

so lets remember wii u has been out 2 months so calm down and relax.

remember the 3ds is doomed stuff cause it had no games no 3rd party support and nobody wanted a 3d system.now its out selling DS in the same time period.

any sane person knows it takes awhile for a Console to get going.so when people say doom and gloom 2 months In its just hating.

I understand all you people who bought the wii u feel like you have to defend it and I am not saying it's a bad system .But it really needs software sooner rather then later . Also it's being out sold by ps3 and xbox 360 which are 7 years old and that's just the facts it moved less then 16,000 units less week compared to 43,000 by 360 that's not good no matter how you spin it. They can't wait tell e3 to show there games they need to move units now by showing Zelda, Metroid prime and smash bros.Which would generate a lot more interest and would be great. I don't want to see this console fail but as of now it is...

Yep, the Wii U is doomed, it had a terrible launch and no games coming in the foreseeable future, no other system has experience this in it's first year and survived...except for the PS3...and 3DS...and Vita... wait, why are we all doom and gloom about stuff that happens during every console launch again? Oh right, Nintendo!

It was the same with the PS3, the 3DS and the Vita. Give the damn thing some time to get some more games, the thing just turned two months old and people are already saying there is a crisis. Seems system launches are never gonna change...

People still have no clue what the Wii u is. Several people think it is just a tablet add on. Nintendo has done an awful job in the advertising department. I have enjoyed my time with the system so far. I did not care for the Wii and regret that purchase, but so far this system has exceeded my expectations. Games will come, I'd rather they release full working versions rather than the patch riddled titles we have been getting this gen.

Guys,

Nintendo is not doomed as of yet.They still have a chance to prove themselves at e3 2013. Nintendo can make a huge turn a round if they show some incredible games worthy of buying.

wow... i'ts from yahoo news.. :3

I noooooo Sony fans are not talkin trash when it comes to waiting for a good game to come out for their system after launch.....lol now that's funny. I can't tell u how many years went by before my 600$ paperweight was actually some what useful. Disagree all u want but the ps3 had NO must have games for atleast 2 yrs after launch. I own all current gen systems since they launched and none of them had a must have game at lunch or even a yr after. Give the damn Wii U time u nerds

From launch to window the PS3 only had Genji, Resistance, Sonic, Armored Core 4, and MotorStorm, now look at the library. Except with the Wii U, the launch to window lineup is New Super Mario Bros U, ZombiU, Rayman Legends, DarkSiders II, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge, Lego City Undercover, Assassin's Creed III, etc.

A Crisis? LOL. What the F*ck is Vita going through 1 year after launch. Horrible author, pre-mature doom, and I've already seen this before..... the 3DS.

I'll bet anybody 2-3 years from now the Wii U is doing just fine. And its funny to cause Nintendo had a better launch than the PS3 and Xbox 360.

lol...haters please get over yourselves...the wiiu is around the 3 million mark sells in two months...how was the psvita doing at two months time at a lower price with good press and good commercials...how was the ps3 or 360 doing/>>? point is wiiu sales will only go up as nintendo advertise it better and as the games start coming...so the only one worried are haters....us wiiu owners and supports knows nitenddo's track record...we all saw how 3ds was able to destroy the competition and sell through the roof after going through the same nonsense and hate through a certain extent.

Just down vote these sites.. I may have my issues with the Wii U from a hardware standpoint but I still own one and even I get sick of this crap. I know what it feels like being a person who loves the PS Vita, not like I haven't sifted through tons of those fail articles..

Also just want to point out launches don't matter too much really it matters more what you make at the end of a cycle. Not insulting the Wii U launch sales just saying it's too soon to actually say if it's sales now will actually matter or even mean anything later on.

What people also don't understand is all these companies are losing money fairly recently so it isn't that big of a deal just yet, it's no doubt just like Sony has been if Nintendo needed to they could get the money to push the Wii U even if it was struggling somehow. These guys aren't completely broke yet and they have back up plans for times like these trust me.

They will shell out all the cash they have to make sure they stay in the industry as long as they can or until they just can't bleed anymore. They could also just layoff some employees or separate divisions they have around the world.

Like I said shit hasn't hit the fan just yet for anyone. If anything Sony is fighting the hardest right now, Nintendo is feeling the hurt Sony is but no where near the same level so no worries and well Microsoft will always be rich as all fuck so that is nothing new.. Damn you Windows.

Pretty soon it's going to be called the "Wii Who?"

Every system has a drought in the beginning of its life. Look at what happened to the 3DS in the beginning and look at it now. The Wii U will have to go through the same thing unless the sales are so bad that Nintendo panics and applies a massive price drop like the 3DS. But i dont think that will happen until the other Next gen systems get their prices confirmed.

@kuroukage

wii who wii who wii who. Sounds like a whambulance to me lol

As a gamer i have "ZERO" interest in the WiiU, its clearly a gimick in the lines of kinect.

Give me more well build games.

Great read, its what said December 2012.
The sad part is, the Wii U should have released in 2006...
Theres just no practicality in paying so much for cheap tech in 2013!
Two screens, arkward to watch both, irrelevent tech.

the wii u launched prematurely.. They shouldve had various exclusives ready before they system came out.. Now they might be forced to price drop like 3ds did or Orbis will blast it into smithereens..

Wii Me will be announced soon, and it will finally be on par with xbox360.
Next, Wii US, which will be on par with ps3, will be released after Wii Me.

Yup, these consoles will sell like hotcakes because of those childish/girlish/family titles, just like those iOS/Android titles.

U Mii, Wii all fucked! lol! I love watching Nintendo fall from the throne. Their ego needs a good swift kick in the ass, haha! It's the same thing that happened to Sony with the PS3 launch. Sony was on top. Then their ego ruined everything. Thought we'd buy a 700 dollar system, just because PS2 was the #1 console at the time. Ha!

Are people that stupid to think the 3ds sales are because of games. WRONG!

The 3ds sales are people from DS buying 3DS. Because they lowered the price.

Wii U isn't in the same place. Even if they lower the price, it will never get to wii sales.

mums/dads/gramps/uncle nev, don't want the wii u, they only bought the wii to play games with their kids/grandchildren etc with the motion control.

40+ is the max wii u will sell, said this from day 1.

Wii U is okay I guess....but there is a reason why I recently purchased a 360 slim as my 2nd console over Wii U *so late in this gen cycle...

Wii U does not appeal to my gaming needs. N4G Nintendo heads can't understand as a mature gamer I don't wanna play cartoons and cutesy games.

Yeh, there's a few mature titles...but nothing over and beyond what can be experienced on much more affordable hardware.

It may be early days for Wii U, but already a worryingly high percentage of 3rd party studios are already dismissing the Wii U due to commitment to upcoming hardware and possibly having to down scale (already??) to Wii U specs.

Happy to own both PS3/360.

a 7670 or 6670 are BUDGET cards u buy them a best buy with pre built machines hardly a gaming gpu at all

I gotta say, I am a Nintendo fan through and through. But you cant cover the sky with your hands and pretend its not there.
My 5 year old son knows that you need hot and CONSISTENT games to keep interest alive.
I think the big N fucked up this time around. If they don't come out of left field with some awesome games. I fear for this new console.
and I say this with a heavy heart.

I gleefully want to watch the wii u burn! I can only imagine the stress Reggie is under! :)

this is bad but its nintendos fault

Wii U's weak sales? Whoever wrote this has been reading too many Nintendo doom articles. The sales are just fine, do you remember how many people bought a PS3 when it was first released? People need to stop comparing Wii U sales with current console sales until it's been out nearly a decade. The fact is Wii U sales are similar to PS3 sales right now because Wii U has only just come out so it hasn't had chance to create a fanbase yet, PS3 is at the end of it's cycle so people aren't buying it anymore.

if WiiU can be in crysis and is inexpensive to be on ps4 and xbox 720 which may cost about $ 500 I ever and had playstation but if the cost of PS4 is too high will not buy it I have Wii u too and I think it's their excellent console games look better than the current PS3 and Xbox 360 that spent more than 7years to see good games gráfically when WiiU has the same time as they would then graphically Wonder you play xbox360 ps3 and they looked as they look now

i hate negative 'doom and gloom' articles, especially the stupid retarded journalists who write them. then when the console does well and all the great games come out for it they the same journos jump on the bandwagon stating how much they love the console and suck on it and wank over it etc. its happened to consoles like the ps3, the 3ds etc; starting to happen for the psvita and will eventually happen to the wii u and the other next gen consoles.

I'm enjoying it, but they really need to show off a 3D Mario, new Zelda, Metroid, Smash Bro's ect...

I am really digging it, but there needs to be some great games out for it to entice people. I mean I have New Super Mario Bro's U, ZombiU and AC3 for the Wii U, but I want some exclusives. I'm of the opinion that exclusives sell people on a console at launch.

I mean you wii u fan boys can all get butt hurt , but what are you playing on it Mario still or a lot of ports that came out over a year ago..Cause your not getting anything soon really, no dead space 3 ,bioshock, metal gear rising ,dmc, metro 2034 ,tomb raider the list goes on.. You get aliens and some lego game in march and that's it... That's just 3rd part if you have ps3 you get sly, god of war ,and last of us all by may .Xbox has gears of war I don't like that game personally but it's still a big game....

nintendo never change do they

i suppose nothing is better than shovelware though. quality, not quantity

I'm not sure what Nintendo was thinking. Powerful machines are what makes gaming. They were silly to think they could do what the Wii did again. Not much new to the Wii U. It would have been better if it had been a Wii with cutting edge power.

I sold all my consoles to go strictly pc but i have t admit that lego city looks so cool and monster hunter is a no brainer. If wiiu gets fire emblem ill have to pull the trigger again just to play MH and FE. Tech aside Nintendo still has fun games. As the above poster said it more cutesy and what not but for me it is a trip down memory lane every time i see the nintendo logo.

Crap article from crap journalist and crap people on this site gets horny because of crap.
The truth is always stronger than opinions.

Im enjoying my Wii U quite a bit. AC3, Blops2, ZOmbiU, NG:RE are all great titles that occupy my time nicely. It also helps that the Wii U is fully backwards compatible with the Wii so that when Pandora's Tower come out ill be adding that to my collection of games as well. Sales wise its beating the ps3 and 360 in the same timeframe and both of those consoles went on to sell over 70 million. In the coming months we get Rayman (xclusive) and MH tri (exclusive) as well as an incredible looking Lego game (exclusive) and some decent looking 3rd party multiplats with Aliens and injustice. As somebody else said its mainly the people who dont have a wii u that are complaining. And to the people who keep bringing up the PS4, its not announced, no idea what will launch for it, and going off of rumors its not that much stronger than the Wii U, at least not strong enough to make a huge differenc.

This just sounds like my 3DS experience. The severe lack of games in the first year really put me off the system and it is now collecting dust."

lol lack of games? have you even seen the library, and as for the vita its gasping for air since it has nothing going for it.

Nintendo is the result of their own arrogance.

Wow, I now officially weep for humanity after reading these comments, watching the agrees/disagrees count and..... DID THEY BUBBLE UP AKUMA?!?!?!

R.I.P - N4G's comment section.

Come on! Bring back that comment section that was specially made for trolls and trolls only!

Wow people love thinking they know the future lol and I could go on and on about so many things but all I will say is just wait peopke seem to forget gaming history or just don't know it at all ha lol and unlije so many people I am giving the system a chance

As of this very moment, the Wii U is in a pretty bad state. That's not to say it won't ever pick up. It's right now.

Almost every game currently on the Wii U is on another console or handheld and is a port. Very few are exclusives. Out of the massive list of 10 games that are released until April, only two are exclusive. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is on the PSP, while Ultimate 3rd is nothing more than an enhanced port that's on both the 3DS and Wii U.

So that leaves Lego Undercover and Rayman Legends. The newest Rayman game was great, but as poor as it sold on every console it was released on, this isn't going to be a system seller, and Lego Undercover definitely isn't.

Every other launch window title that's been announced has been delayed.

For those that already own a Wii U exclusively, this shouldn't be a problem because the list of games plus any Wii games you may have missed, as well as Pandora's Tower, should have no trouble getting you through this six months.

But for Wii U sales in general, this only pushes more sales towards the PS360 and for this next six months, the Wii U sales are still probably going to be low. The reason is simple. Cheaper console and a lot of interesting games that the Wii U doesn't have.

Not including anything the Wii U is also getting, there's Ni No Kuni, Dead Space 3, Sly Cooper, Crysis 3, Revengeance, Tomb Raider, God of War, Gears of War, Army of Two, Bioshock Infinite, Dead Island, Splinter Cell, the Last of Us, and Beyond Two Souls. Remove the exclusives and there is still a great multiconsole lineup along the PS360.

With the lack of games on the Wii U and possibly the best first and second quarter line up to grace either the PS3 or the 360, the Wii U is going to be ignored the first half of the year.

Ninty's first party games won't save the U!

Did Mario/Link/Samus save the Game Cube? Nope. The 64? nada! And they won't save the U.

I'm glad I held off, might pick one up in a year or two when there's a good library of strong titles.

The Wii U has been dead from the moment it launched.

I love Mario and Zelda as much as anyone else but it's not enough.

When the TRUE next gen systems release this year it's going to be done for.

"The sky is falling. The sky is falling!" Talk about trolling masked as 'intelligent' reporting. Sad, very very sad : (

The rental agent guy at my building keeps raving about the Wii U. He told me 3 months before it was released that it was going to the " most powerful console ever "

I asked him if he had PS3 or 360 he said no. " Only play the Wii "

He bought one and raves about it. I asked him a few days ago what games he had.

" oh I only play Call of Duty Black Ops "

nintendo will need to do 2 things to bring wii u back to success levels. 1. reduce price. 2. keep a constant stream of high quality games coming

Nintendo seem to be profiling the Wii U in a similar way to the Gamecube...like a mix of core/casual. But even the (arguably better than PS2 technically) Gamecube struggled to get third party attention.

Outside of Nintendo's own studios and a few select third parties, nobody makes money on Nintendo hardware. Nintendo need to build better third party relationships or their users (YOU) will miss out on some awesome games that aren't Mario, Zelda etc..

Nintendo diehards will tell you they only need Nintendo's franchises to justify lack of third party support...but then they get Black Ops 2 and start hootin and tootin lulz

It's not really their fault tbh... 'cos that's always been Nintendo's achilles heal...they're more interested in their own IP's than giving their users a more rounded console experience.

Nintendo stuck on pride & ignorance.