Slow Wii U sales?

[Niku-Sama]

i work at walmart...and i can say honestly its just not selling

we only got about 8 Basic bundles and none of them have sold.
we eventually wound up with 98 deluxe bundles and only 18 of them sold

most of those were people with pre orders expecting to sell them on ebay.

i have personaly sold one and i work in the electronics department

i'm thinking about getting one, probably after tax time and i imagine theres going to be a hefty price drop by then if it doesent start selling soon

[IHatedSega]

I got a ton of flack on a message board cause I said the name was a bad idea. Now whos laughing? And actually scared, cause I wish people were A LITTLE more smart about this and knowing a its a new console and not a add on thing. My friend who hasa PS3 thinks its just an addon to the Wii even though Ive explained what it is 3 times. Why does it take being a diehard to understand that its a new console? Im afraid this will keep the "stupid americans are too dumb for our cool RPG's" mentality at Nintendo.

[WCP]

Why does it take being a diehard to understand that its a new console?

I think a big part of it, is the fact that Nintendo decided to just catch up to where the PS3 and 360 has already been for the last 6 or 7 years. It's not really a next-gen system. If it was truly next-gen, then I think it would be pretty obvious to everybody that Nintendo had a new machine. I remember when I first heard about the Wii U, I really thought that Nintendo could make things interesting, by having a version of Call of Duty that would look leaps and bounds better than the 360 or PS3 versions. It could have created a huge buzz.

Of course, Nintendo was more concerned with having this tablet controller, and they didn't want the price to go into the stratosphere, so the Wii U ended up being pretty underpowered, especially from the CPU standpoint.

[IHatedSega]

Only diehards care about CPU's and being "truly" next gen though. Black Ops isnt as big of a deal with little kids, which has always been Nintendos default audience. Most people just care about games, and the Wii name still being on the machine made people think its a Wii with a new controller you cant use on the normal Wii. Nintendo should still be the bigger brand name than Wii, and that was my big problem with it. When the SNES came out it was so much different than the NES, parents who didnt think they needed to buy their kids a new console saw it and heard the music and knew it was different and better.

They just should have come up with a different name.

[WCP]

Only diehards care about CPU's and being "truly" next gen though. Black Ops isnt as big of a deal with little kids, which has always been Nintendos default audience. Most people just care about games, and the Wii name still being on the machine made people think its a Wii with a new controller you cant use on the normal Wii. Nintendo should still be the bigger brand name than Wii, and that was my big problem with it. When the SNES came out it was so much different than the NES, parents who didnt think they needed to buy their kids a new console saw it and heard the music and knew it was different and better.

They just should have come up with a different name.

I understand what you're saying, but at the same time, you have Reggie telling the media that Black Ops on the Wii U is vastly superior to the 360 and PS3 versions, which of course is a joke, but I think if it was legitmately true, it really would make a difference. Nintendo could have easily had enough power in the machine to run Black Ops at a "legit" 1080p, and also at a silky smooth 60 frames per second. The textures could have been significantly improved, etc, etc. I think if Nintendo had commericals that did an A/B comparison between Black Ops on Wii U and on the 360/PS3, I think it could have generated some buzz. Sure, the buzz would start with the hardcore set, but it eventually trickles down to the Joe Sixpacks of the world.

Of course, this would have also required that Nintendo send a few wheelbarrels of cache to Activision to make sure that the Wii U version of Black Ops 2 was truly special, and we all know that Nintendo doesn't like doing stuff like that.

[IHatedSega]

To me its not about 1080 anything or seeing brown areas in their browny glory. They just need to focus on Mario and Link as games. But to me the bigger thing they should be doing right now is making people understand its a brand new console.