Nintendo finds itself under fire from furious shareholders

Re:Nintendo finds itself under fire from furious shareholders by Someone1234 on Thursday July 03, 2014 @02:50PM (#7984908)

Wii U was definitely an initial failure but they've been clawing it back in the last few months. Since the release of Mario Kart 8 and the free game thing, Wii Us have quite literally been out of stock at quite a few places (since the demand spike was quite unexpected from the retailers).

It remains to be seen if the Wii U will be a long term success or failure, but we might yet see it do well. The Wii didn't really hit the big time until its price came down and it had software like Wii Fit. Maybe the Wii U will have a Wii Fit equivalent and will hit the right price point?

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Re:Nintendo finds itself under fire from furious shareholders by deciplex on Thursday July 03, 2014 @09:43PM (#7986846)

I still maintain that they'd see at +20% sales if they had named it almost literally anything else. Wii U is such a stupid name that it really makes me question wtf is going with the management there. Even with the Wii, that console succeeded in spite of the terrible branding, not because of it.

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