Nintendo Reports Big Losses as Wii U Sales Stall

@Foxhound71:
--sony is a super-conglomerate(as is microsoft)
--nintendo is a soul corporation
--yet
--Nintendo has a larger net-worth than the whole of sony
--but MS?
--well
--they are worth a lot
--but in reality
--MS is only worth about 3x as much as nintendo
--yes
--Microsoft the ENTIRE super-conglomerate
--is only worth about 3 times as much as nintendo

@Pawfalcon: Couple of people I know bought refurbished systems on Nintendo's website... 200 bucks

@Pawfalcon:
--if u are willing to pay 250$ for a wiiU
--and are dying to get into some nintendo action
--just buy one
--i hardly ever play mine(these days anymore)
--but
--wiiU has like one of the largest lineup of EXCELLENT exclusives available(from any generation)
--it is the kinda console that if it is what you are in the mood for
--it will deliver 100x over

--also
--go ahead and start purchasing games you are interested in(and plotting out deals for those games)
--because nintendo's exclusives usually start going up in value as they get older

@Pawfalcon: Do you follow deal sites/forums? Because the WiiU was such a low seller there were all kinds of killer deals on the hardware and games many times, even as early as around 6 months after launch. Not official price drops but frequently retailers had huge discounts to get rid of stock. Of course those deals slowed as they got rid of that stock and presumably adjusted their ordering of future stock :), but there still some decent deals that pop up.

@angrycreep: Nintendo expects to sell consoles based on their IP and brand which they think is still magic with casuals. They believe they can sort of "outsmart" casuals away from their phones and tablets, like if they simply flash some Mario at them in an app those casuals will run out and buy Nintendo consoles :).

I'm with the people that think they have lost the casuals to mobile and will not get them back, short of something totally wild (and unlikely) like a Nintendo branded tablet running Android :). The sad thing is they have also lost or are losing their supposedly diehard adult fans, at least to some extent.

@Thanatos2k: I'm not expecting NX to have a Neo or Scorpio type of power but I'm at least expecting the NX to match the current PS4 or be more powerful than the Xbox One. If the NX can't at least match the PS4 then I'm just throwing the red flag at Nintendo. How can they expect people to buy their consoles when they still stuck and producing low tech consoles that can't compete or even produce a 1080P at 60FPS game. They have to show us something and it is very troubling that other than giving us a prototype name for their console they haven't say anything else about their newest console. which it leave you to believe that after hearing the announcement of the Neo and Scorpio they are scare of telling people that they have another console whish is not as powerful as the Neo and Scorpio and in top of that their newest console can't match the current most powerful consoles out there now the PS4 and just a minor update in tech to the wii U.

@xenomorphalien: Speak for yourself. Color Splash looks awesome, and it's really the only game I care about getting this year.

@bunchanumbers: It is worse than outdated, the Wii U's CPU is custom, with how low the sales are I doubt they ever got over the initial start up cost for manufacturing it... Part of why Nintendo refuses to drop below $300 despite people calling it "over priced." The truth of the matter is that Sony/MS are likely paying less for superior hardware.

@bunchanumbers: interesting theory. i can totally see nintendo stopping production of wii u units within the next 12 months or so. with only 12m in the wild, they will be pretty hard to come by in 5-10 years time. if the nx is not backwards compatible with wii u titles, i am sure wii u's will hold their value among sellers... if nintendo plans to run wii u titles with the nx, the wii u will be long forgotten before we know it.

@bunchanumbers: Doubt it, from what i read a while ago, the manufacture process was getting cheaper and cheaper, also Nintendo was making a profit out of every Wii U sold...i do believe they don't want to over produce more consoles but they are fine with whatever number they can sold each month since is all about NX in a few months.

@TheZeroPercent: OMG and everyone is critical of handheld gaming! I can't believe this is true about 3ds sales! https://mynintendonews.com/2015/12/10/nintendo-america-says-nintendo-3ds-is-here-to-stay/

@Xristophoros: No bro, the 2ds/3ds-3ds XL/n3ds-n3ds XL are not more expensive than a PS3 or Vita. Agreed on the Wii U/Xbone part though. However the games are stupidly expensive especially the digital copies compared to the tons of sales that Playstation has for its platforms.

@Xristophoros: Though I do agree with you I would say entering into the 3ds family is affordable if you just want to play games. A 2ds is $80 or $60 refurb from nintendo. It plays both DS and 3DS games as well so thats a huge library. But nintendo overall is pretty expensive considering their home console and that game prices, no matter how old they are, do not decrease.

@Xristophoros: The 3DS has lots of value and great games. It's not even that expensive. The XL is like $170 and a 2DS goes for $80.

@skrilla99: no.

$80.

I do wanna play FE X Megami

@dcoutten: You mean the old DS? 3DS came out in 2011.

@barcaazul: I think the Nx waiters will be... surprise.