WiiU Already Selling out:

[Kroxile]

Lol, I honestly saw this coming from a mile away. By January everyone and their mother will have one.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I never stated it would flop, just that putting a touch screen in a controller is a terrible idea.

Seeing as it's the Nintendo/Wii brand it's no surprise people would flock to it like snow geese.

 

[Evil Smurf]

good, id love to see the faces of the people saying it would flop.

"It's not really selling well at all. All of those sold units were for 'casual' gamers, not the true hardcore crowd like myself! Down with Nintendo!"
/Haterdom rant.

Real opinion. Good to see them doing so well.

I love the Wii. I will love the WiiU

 

[Pearwood]

Well, I certainly didn't see that coming, but I'm waiting to see how the games pan out before I call it a success.

Just the announce of Bayonetta 2 is enough for me to put the Wii U above anything Sony or Microsoft can offer. You'd have to put out something like Devil May Cry 5, Shin Megami Tensei - Miscellaneous Subtitle or Project Zero 5 (another Nintendo owned series I believe, if they ever remember Europe exists) to distract me from that and even then it'd probably have to be two of the above.

Simple strategy. Painfully sad how effective it is on the masses.

Remember how well the first Wii did? I can totally see this being legit, it might not be but it's plausible.

 

[GrimHeaper]

Always wait for the actual numbers to show compared to the number of pre-orders. This isn't like any other console generation we are dealing with where it is just new hardware but instead another expansion into what it means in a race to "own the home". Companies like AT&T and Verison have been trying to do this for years but even when they did expand into home internet and tried to levy their home phone into a tablet based service it never really grabbed hold compared to what the WiiU could potentially offer.

Most of the own the home tactics from the telecommunications industry have been more or less not really made things dynamic for the user or added any sort of benefit to the consumer. The wiiU and other consoles? They are offering consumers the potential to save money by actually becoming more reliant on just internet and go straight for subscription based services like netflix. That is a massive shift of savings considering how expensive television packages are today and how these telecommunication companies aren't empowering consumers with their own build your own package. Not to mention the increasing rates.

If the wiiu wants to be a success they need to like during the age of the PS2 that this will prove to save consumers money in the long run. I haven't seen that case being completely made. This isn't like the kids convincing their parents to buy a PS2 as a DVD player/game console but it is now convincing adults to replace their cable for pure on demand services. It's a much harder sell if you lack the financial means. Not to mention the barrier of entry or I should say repair. 170 dollars for a replacement Wiiu tablet? Christ that hurts A LOT. Not to mention the question of hard drive space and saving and transferring games.

actually you can connect an external hard drive to the wiiU and transfer things.
On demand services are cheaper and better than cable or satellite now.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Well this is good news, maybe 3rd party devs will start actually acknowledging Nintendo's existence, although they didn't after the same thing happened with the Wii -.-

 

[rob_simple]

Well, I certainly didn't see that coming, but I'm waiting to see how the games pan out before I call it a success.

Just the announce of Bayonetta 2 is enough for me to put the Wii U above anything Sony or Microsoft can offer. You'd have to put out something like Devil May Cry 5, Shin Megami Tensei - Miscellaneous Subtitle or Project Zero 5 (another Nintendo owned series I believe, if they ever remember Europe exists) to distract me from that and even then it'd probably have to be two of the above.

Well, I rated the Wii at the bottom of the last console generation, easily, so I've not got high hopes for this new console.

I've probably enjoyed the PS3 most out of the current generation, so I'm currently placing the majority of my eggs in Sony's basket.

 

[Pearwood]

Well, I rated the Wii at the bottom of the last console generation, easily, so I've not got high hopes for this new console.

Well Nintendo going after something like Bayonetta shows they're willing to offer more than kid games. The release date is perfect too since the devs will be making games for the Wii U as the standard platform until the other two next gen consoles show up and from what I've heard that's going to be a good few years. I'm pretty optimistic about it, plus I've missed being able to get Mario games.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Yay, I knew it was going to sell well anyway.

It's still very early though

 

[rob_simple]

Well, I rated the Wii at the bottom of the last console generation, easily, so I've not got high hopes for this new console.

Well Nintendo going after something like Bayonetta shows they're willing to offer more than kid games. The release date is perfect too since the devs will be making games for the Wii U as the standard platform until the other two next gen consoles show up and from what I've heard that's going to be a good few years. I'm pretty optimistic about it, plus I've missed being able to get Mario games.

The lack of mature games was never my problem with the Wii, it was the fact that the motion controls, by and large, were either broken or, at the very least, an unnecessary embuggerance. There wasn't a single game I played on the Wii that I didn't think, 'this would be much better with a Gamecube controller.'

This early release, as far as I'm concerned, won't give Nintendo much of an advantage since the majority of people seem to have lost interest in the Wii, but there are still plenty of big titles coming out for the 360 and PS3.

 

[Bigsmith]

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Colour me impressed. :3

You are impressed that a new console is sold out on preorders? PS3, Xbox360, and Wii all did the same thing on launch.

This is nothing new, and not it is just their black limited edition one that has sold out, not the standard versions which they are plenty of.

Ok, maybe impressed was the wrong word to use. I do agree that's is nothing new, but I really honestly did feel that the price of the gamepads alone would be enough to hinder it's sales.

 

[ultrabiome]

good to hear. the wii did something no one expected, they went to tangent to the way microsoft and sony were going, and at a lower price point and it sold like crazy. the games mainly had to be developed separately from the other consoles, and some games suffered, but others did new and interesting things while developers learned what to do and not to do with motion controls.

i hope they learned their lessons on online functionality, and from what i've read so far, they have for the most part.

my wii served me well for 4 years, until i could afford the HDTV+PS3 combo i wanted (i still use it to play dr. mario with my wife). i'll probably pick a WiiU up in a few years.

and the price is on par with the wii+inflation.

 

[artanis_neravar]

Called it.

And fuck me I had forgotten to pre-order. I really wanted the black one too... I may just wait.

I'm gonna be checking Amazon every day till they put theirs up (unless there is something going on between Amazon and Nintendo that i don't know about)

 

[DustyDrB]

Didn't know it was for sale yet. I'm feeling optimistic about the console, but it has to meet my quota of 12 games before I buy it (and those are 12 games I want and can't play on a platform I already own). So that should take a while, even for a well-supported console. Though there are going to be a lot of launch games for the Wii U, most of the good ones are games I already have. I guess I can't fault people for preordering this one, though. Unlike the 3DS and Vita. Just why would you even preorder those?

 

[hazabaza1]

It's Nintendo, of course it's going to be selling well.

 

[Worgen]

I think Ill keep a close eye on my nintendo stock.

 

[Xenowolf]

Not that suprised about this. However, I will be suprised if sales of the console (from "hardcore" gamers at least) will crash after E3 2013 when the NextBox and PS4 will probabaly be revealed. And "casual" gamers will probabaly just continue with their old Wii.