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What Can Save the Wii U?

Francis King Jr. from Cross Console Gamers writes: The Wii U has not been doing well. By all accounts, Nintendo's attempt to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was the success of the Wii has fallen flat. Nintendo recently announced its third consecutive operating loss, coming in at $457 million. According to IGN, the Wii U sold 2.7 million units in the past fiscal year, after lowering its projections for the year from 9 million units to 2.8 million. The sales bring total to 6.17 million units sold since the console's release in November of 2012. To put that into context, the PS4 has sold 7 million units since its release a year later in November of 2013. Clearly, things aren't working out.

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ats19924397d ago (Edited 4397d ago )

A massive 3d Pokemon game where you can go to every region, catch every pokemon, battle every gym, and compete in the pokemon league. A game like that could be a huge system seller imo.

UltimateMaster4397d ago

Worthwhile Games, those coming in 2014 should help a lot.

ats19924397d ago

Yea the 2014 line up is making me buy a wii u on black friday.

iamnsuperman4397d ago

Correction, worthwhile 3rd party support. Nintendo have long suffered from this but it needs to change. The need to start funding decent ports to their system. They can only do so much with their own ips. Without 3rd party support the Wii U will go the way of the Gamecube

Vegamyster4397d ago

Proper advertising as well.

guitarded774397d ago

I bought one at launch, and here's what I think would get people interested again...

Zelda (obviously)
Metroid
Animal Crossing with online play and lots of new features
An accomplishment System (Here come the haters)
Some huge new Nintendo IP. Something with a deep story and gameplay like a Zelda or Metroid. It's time
Kid Ic

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darthv724397d ago

I think what could save the wiiu is people stop their bickering over xb1 vs ps4 and just pick up a wiiu for some genuine fun and entertainment that platform has to offer.

Not saying there isnt fun/entertaining games on ps4/xb1 but you wouldnt know it with the way peeps just slam each other back and forth. Wiiu deserves better than what its getting. Once you play one and really spend some time with it you find it really is a good platform with good games out as well as on the horizon.

Like the dreamcast in a sense. People shunned that platform because of all the launch hype of the ps2 (at the time) and it wasnt until after the plug was pulled that people said it really is a good system and they were stupid to not have gotten one when it was still on the market.

You dont know what you got...till its gone. Id hate to see the wiiu fail but its the gamers that are ignoring it...more specifically, the graphic whores who are worried about pixel power instead of good old fashioned fun.

DanManDantheMan4397d ago

There must have been 20 million sites asking this same question over the past year.

admiralvic4397d ago

Yep. The irony is that some positivity can go a long way too. Instead of simply framing every situation as if the Wii U is hopeless and needs a miracle to be successful, these articles could cover what the Wii U has and why you should get one / consider one / be hopeful for the future. Shame negativity sells or else we might see more hopeful articles.

DanManDantheMan4397d ago (Edited 4397d ago )

All articles like this do is regurgitate the same rhetoric. I like originality.

guitarded774397d ago

Yup... it's a bit redundant. But maybe if Nintendo did more listening, these articles would go away. Just sayin'.

DanManDantheMan4397d ago

I don't care whether they're here or not. I just don't know why people insist on regurgitating the same points (even the title) like they're saving anything new. Just overall boring to read (I don't even read them at this point).

Question_Mark4397d ago

If anything, Mario Kart 8 seems to be a very good place to start.

incendy354397d ago

A new Zelda and Metroid would probably get a sale from me. Not really interested in the hardware but no way I can pass up a new Zelda experience.

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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).

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Relientk7760d ago (Edited 60d ago )

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

PRIMORDUS59d ago (Edited 59d 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.

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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.

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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.

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Deathdeliverer85d ago

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

0hMyGandhi84d 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.

AuraAbjure84d ago (Edited 84d ago )

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

EveryPlatformGamer85d 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.

-Foxtrot85d 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_Box84d ago (Edited 84d 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

Inverno85d ago

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

Eonjay85d 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.

Inverno83d 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.

Killer2020UK83d 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 🤷‍♂️

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