Anyone not proclaiming the death of the Wii U is ignoring almost everything about the Wii U.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
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Anyone not proclaiming the death of the Wii U is ignoring almost everything about the Wii U.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Well, yea, but the Wii U won't die because the PS4 is doing remote play with Vita.
No, it'll die because it's a last-gen system with 1/100th of the games of the last-gen systems and a higher price tag.
Not alone, but it has to be damaging. The Wii U's one uniqueness is dead. Sure it costs more to replicate it on PS4/Vita, but in terms of bullet points, the exclusivity is gone. Plus, if it is that big a deal, some number of people will buy a Vita instead of a 3DS to enable it with better hardware, which would be a double whammy on Nintendo. Thankfully for them, that number is probably pretty small, but hell, I once thought the number of people who would play games on a tablet was pretty small too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
The home-portable thing was already a dud to begin with. I don't think there was a lot of excitement for that feature. The Vita thing is more interesting because you don't have to be home to do it.
About as damaging as the Move and Kinect were to the Wii, so not very.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I'm not so sure. How many Wii systems were sold after those were released? If I remember right, the Wii sales curve was pretty front loaded. So you could argue that the fad wore off and that Sony and MS had nothing to do with it, but I don't think the Wii flourished late in its life once the Move and Kinect were available. Plus, I don't think the Move was announced with six months and hit within a year of the Wii's release, did it?
edit: Plus, there is inertia at work here. It was hard to stop the Wii's momentum. It's damn easy to keep the Wii U from getting any.
I honestly think the Kinect derailed up the Wii. If you look at sales charts, the two systems flipped right around that time. MS changed their whole focus to go after that Wii audience - remember those Wii rip-off commercials, with the happy white family in white clothes in a white room bouncing around to a 360 and Kinect?Quote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
Sony isn't going to go out there and say, for $400+$200 you can do what a $250 Wii U can do! It'll be a cool feature for sure (and my Vita is ready) but it won't be a huge selling point.
Being able to stream your games from your living room to the room next to your living room is not an equivalent feature to being able to stream games from your home to 100 miles away. The Wii U feature is a flop, there's nothing to derail. The system has no momentum and its marquee feature has been met with indifference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I really wish Kbu Chan and his ilk were in this thread. The enjoyment factor would explode.