Weak sales for Wii U

[nicholas]

As the father of 8 and 5 year olds I can tell you with great confidence that Nintendo games are the KINGS of gaming for many years to come in my household.

My almost 15yr old son grew up with only Nintendo but now is PS3 obsessed. He doesn't fancy the PS4 though and I think he would rather die than get an Xbox based on his teenage mutterings.

My youngest son is 5 next month and doesn't really care for games yet but I will only buy Nintendo for him if/when he does.

[Methuselas]

I guess I lucked out. My almost 5 year old watches in awe when Dad plays Mechwarrior Online. ;P He doesn't care for it, though, when Mum and I play Neverwinter. Guess it's all about Giant Robots. Go figure. He's half-Asian. XD

[prowler]

Only $100,000 per-month is less than 20 to 30 peoples wages per-month. Got more than people to pay than you're bringing in? Then they're losing month every month.

That's just simple maths, everyone complains about it being a profit driven and greedy industry but if you can't pay people then the company goes bust... then everyone complains about how they were too stupid to manage their finances.

As I stated, the $100000 was profit, not the amount that they made from it. The product was actually pulling in over a million dollars a month and the $100000 was what was left after all the expenses of the business was paid for.

Also, once the company I worked for got the tender, we managed to grow the business which ended up bring in even more revenue. The company we got the tender from commented they were surprised by this (though not upset as they liked the extra money) and then proceded to to tell us the reason they were surprised was because they felt the product was basically dead and had given up on it.

[rabindranath72]

Though interested at the start, I had somewhat predicted the low sales of Wii U so I did not invest in it.
I have a PS3 first generation (so hardware compatible with PS2) which I use myself, and a Wii which I use for party games, and my 3 yo plays Cars on it and my wife uses for the Wii Fit.
For the foreseeable future I am well set. When the PS3 bites the dust, I will perhaps look at the PS4 (assuming there is a way to run PS3 and PS2 titles, perhaps in emulation.)

[Crom00]

I take no joy in the demise of the Wii U, or bad state of Nintendo. A rising tide raises all ships.

Funny how as champions of an orphaned computer we take such glee in others misfortune. That being said game devs are fickle, from what I hear Nintendo has enough to keep going based off or Wii Virtual Console, casual and first party Nintendo title sales and over time incrementally dial up support.

EA killed the Dreamcast with lack of support, that was more of a revenge play as SEGA had Genesis, 32X, SegaCD, CD32X, and Saturn on the market at the same time. EA took a bath on sales and the rest is history. If it was up to shareholders

Nintendo would be making I-OS apps, fire all in house development and outsource all game development to the lowest bidder.

Props to Nintendo to NO reducing staff in these hard times, they know you don't break up AAA dev teams because share holders and financial analysts want your blood.

I was reading the article over at ars technica:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/why-third-party-publishers-still-arent-thrilled-with-wii-u/

Some of the big games companies have already abandoned it.
It is amazing how quickly a games company couldn't be bothered developing software ports. It's not just about sales, it's an insatiable greed for money.

I remember the games companies jumping from platform to platform depending on popularity.

Wii went down the toilet :roflmao: