All Channels
Popular
140°

Nintendo NiidsU

Gioteck discuss what Nintendo need to do to up their game and become successful again.

GreenRanger4829d ago (Edited 4829d ago )

"become successful again"?!
Uh...aren't they successful now?
People are always in a hurry to write off a company the second they hit a bump in the road.
Foolish mortals.

HammadTheBeast4829d ago

Didn't you say the exact opposite on Vita articles?

gamer424829d ago (Edited 4829d ago )

Fanboys are fanboys what do you expect.

fatstarr4829d ago

"They have had to announce a loss for the first time and continually revise down both hardware and software sales."

only the first time? wave the white flag. smh I have a question, if company A sells a product to every human being in the world and then the quarter after their sales fall to 0 that means what? they have 8 billion of their products out on the market what more can they do sell the same thing twice?

on topic...

sony is selling assets, releasing a non profitable system again and all that jazz. they are up to their neck in debt, rating dropped to junk status.

meanwhile Nintendo sells 3 million units in under 50 days... and the 3DS is killing it and no heavy hitting games have released yet for the wiiu.

yea I dont know which one looks like doom. yea its nintendo man they are doomed and they have to fix it now.

smh please, Retro studios is about to take names. E3 will talk for nintendo.

InsaneChronos4829d ago

>> E3 will talk for nintendo <<
Of course not.

linkofrs4829d ago

I agree with all of these reasons except one. While it would be amazing if Nintendo lowered the price of the Wii U i for one don't think it would be a good idea since they are already losing money on each console sold. But Nintendo need to advertise heavily and get more 1st party games out. The latter of which will probably not happen til e3.

MasterCornholio4829d ago

But even if Nintendo announces several first party games at E3 do you think it would be enough to combat the launch of 2 next generation systems?

This is a very intriguing question and we wont know the answer to it until the end of this year.

But the most similar case to this was the Dreamcast and that didnt end well for Sega.

TongkatAli4829d ago

Nintendo is no where near the financial situation Sega had when it launched the Dreamcast. Nintendo ain't going anywhere.

linkofrs4829d ago

I'm not denying that Nintendo will have competition, if anything having competition is better because then we'll get n64 caliber games from Nintendo which I think is awesome. From what I've seen from Nintendo I personally think they work best under pressure.

However, 3rd parties aren't interested in the Wii U because its selling slowly, in order to make it seem more attractive it has to sell faster. The only way Nintendo themselves can make it sell better is by advertising and making good games for the system. You don't recover 3rd party support overnight.

Also, Sega did not go under because of the
Dreamcast alone, they were losing money from numerous previous failures like the sega saturn, sega CD, and the Sega 32x. The Dreamcast was a last ditch effort by a dying company.

This differs greatly from Nintendo seeing as they made a whole lot of money off of the Wii.

Finally we don't know if the consoles released will fair much better then the Wii U. We'll have to wait til e3 to see what kind of support the other consoles get. It would be pretty bad if they don't get a lot of support but its very unlikely they won't get support. However, I still believe that the companies will do much better as the competition increases.

Ck1x4829d ago (Edited 4829d ago )

Listen if you have any knowledge of gaming at all the DreamCast was an amazing system... The parent company is the reason that system didn't survive not the system itself. I put Nintendo in the same boat as Sony was with the PS3(As both companies were coming off of very successful previous hardware). Nintendo has to prove through 1st party software why the WiiU is a viable system just like Sony has done with the PS3(The PS3 is an amazing system because of Sony's efforts, not 3rd party publishers!) The WiiU can turn around but it will take great efforts on Nintendo's part to do such. Bottom line is that Nintendo has money and Sega didn't to make the necessary adjustments in business decisions.

Stroke6664829d ago

nintendo definitely isn't sega.wii managed to to outsell more powerful opponents, and besides its four months into the market way too early to tell much of anything. i believe marketing is the prob here the wii u is a great system people just don't know it, once they get the word out their sales will pick up,no price cut needed, especially when their comp releases at 100 or so bucks more than them and not much more to show for the extra cash. graphics aren't as important as they used to be but havng games definitely is the deciding factor. nintendo definitely has to pick it up in that dept

+ Show (1) more replyLast reply 4829d ago
objdadon4829d ago

I just bought one yesterday and I like it. A break away from the traditional gaming onmy ps3 and xbox . Hell, I did what I thought my vita was gonna let me do when I got it, I played real black ops 2 upstairs in my bed on the wii u gamepad!

mcstorm4829d ago

I, really impressed the way bo2 plays on the Wiiu and so have my friends who have it on the 360 and ps3. Mariou and zombie are also 2 must have games for the Wiiu. I also own sonic all star racing Tekken tag 2 and Nintendo land and they all offer something different on the console.

For me I think people who are into gaming and have the cash should go out and get a Wiiu they will be surprised at how good it is. Yes there is a new Xbox and PlayStation later this year but the Wiiu will keep you going until then and may even change some peoples minds on what it can offer. I can't wait to get my hands on nfsmw, pickmin 3 and Lego city over the next few months.

MNGamer-N4829d ago

It's a fun machine. I think the advertising and marketing will come when they release some new games. Why market it when the available games are low? It would be a waste.

Show all comments (18)
50°

U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

Read Full Story >>
gamesfray.com
Relientk7751d ago (Edited 51d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS50d ago (Edited 50d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

40°

Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Read Full Story >>
4scarrsgaming.com
60°

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

Read Full Story >>
aftermath.site
Deathdeliverer76d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi75d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer76d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot76d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno76d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay76d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno74d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK74d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

Show all comments (18)