No problem, we all make mistakes. ^.^Gorfias said:
Yeah, Nintendo needs to either fire their marketing person, or hire new ones. You think the advertising is bad here, in Europe they don't even attempt. They got their ads removed because it had some claims in them that weren't true, and it was removed under the grounds of false advertising. While that may seem like it sucks, that's how it's been in Europe for ages and Nintendo should have known how to word things when airing ads in Europe. But now they're not even attempting to advertise in Europe.
Don't get your nieces and nephews a Wii Mini then because it's not built with the idea that kids destroy their consoles, although a physical console shouldn't be roughhoused with anyway, even if it's from Nintendo. For it's disc drive it has a top-loader disc tray that opens similar to the GameCube. If you wanted a cheap alternative, regular launch Wii's go from $50 to $79, support Wii Shop for Virtual Console games, and support GameCube. The Wii Mini cannot connect to the internet at all, it's actually in very small print on the box, only supports composite 480i (component will not work), and the Wii2HDMI may have a chance of working, but I've not tested that one yet. (Wii2HDMI is 3rd party peripheral)
All in all the Wii Mini is literally the GameBoy Micro of home consoles for Nintendo, cute yes, but completely gimped and overpriced when compared to other versions of it's own brand and is just going to be a collector's item for video game collectors.
As for Nintendo dropping the Wii U, that would be a terrible idea because that's basically what SEGA did when it came to the Saturn, and many agree that the real death of SEGA was because of the 32X and the SEGA Saturn. Basically going back to the drawing board and releasing another new console very fast would result in consumers and investors not trusting Nintendo to have faith in their own product and would cause a cascade effect. That's sorta what happened with the Virtual Boy, although for all intensive purposes the Virtual Boy needed to die in a fire, which is sad because while Gunpei Yokoi did design the console, it was never supposed to have the red LED lenses and color for all the games. The games were meant to actually be in color, but Yamauchi said no and went with red LED lenses because they were cheaper. As for where I get my figures, it's usually from either Nintendo's own business reports or from some other sources. VGChartz, while convenient, actually gets many figures wrong, and are usually 500k units or more above what's actually sold. For example, on VGChartz they say that Final Fantasy XII's total sales were 5.95 million, but from Square Enix's reports the total sales were only 5.2 million (still puts the game in the top 10 best sold FF games).
Oh I care about the Wii U, but by Nintendo needs to keep these possible sales up if they want to, although I still think that they'll not make the 9 million unit mark by March 31st and should lower it so that they don't take a large hit in stocks because of it. Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros need to be released on time because in all honesty at this point those two games are gonna make or break the Wii U and determine if it's another GameCube or not.
