2014-06-03, 01:10 PM
Chicocl Wrote:In Japan, there will be various games until Smash is released, so momentum won't be lost there, now the Americas and Europe will have a problem if hyrule warriors and Bayo 2 don't get released in a similar time to japan.
Japan is only getting the same games we are. You're kidding yourself if you think a couple of eshop titles, a zelda spin off and bayonetta 2 are going to do well. Maybe hyrule warriors can sell a few units to people who don't realise how bad Musou games are, but bayonetta 2 is going to be laughed off the wii u sales stage, same as Wonderful 101 was.
Nintendos been announcing games years in advance for wii u since at least January of last year (Like X, Yarn Yoshi, Fire emblem x shin megami tensei). If you think they're magically going to pull major unannounced retail titles for release in july, that's some incredible optimism.
A 3 month gap between releases just isn't good enough to carry what little momentum MK8 is giving them. Maybe X and FExShin megami are nearly done, but they're still not really going to hold anyone, nor fix the fact that 3rd parties are gone. In all honesty, they needed mario kart a whole year ago, with smash for christmas last year if they wanted it to have even a minor chance of "saving" anything.
Link Wrote:The likely hood of a Wii U price drop is low right now, with the Philips lawsuit going through. What Philips wants is a cut of all of the profits gained by Nintendo with the sales of the Wii U and the cease and desist of the manufacturing and selling of the Wii U. While the latter is low in probability that a court order would come through for it, the former is most likely going to prevent any price cuts any time soon, as Nintendo would be making even less money off of it, if any at all, depending on how much they would owe Philips.
The phillips lawsuit won't get them anything. They're idiots and they're lucky to have somehow not had the case thrown out already. They want a cut of profits because of wiimotes technology... for a patent they made sometime around 2009, where wiimotes, of course, started being sold in 2006 and were announced well before then.