pepharytheworm wrote:
Why would you want a system to go belly up so you can just get a deal? Could it possible be that part of the sales problem is from consumers who are thinking like you. Media and even forum doom and gloom saying its going to fail not because it would on its own merits but because they said so, which in turn makes it so.
To me it's not a question of IF the Wii U will go belly-up (i.e. it all but stops getting software and starts getting clearanced) but WHEN. In my mind its short shelf life was all but inevitable once they announced the name and specs. Since I think that the time for that to happen is relatively soon, I don't mind biding my time a while to see when it happens. If some knockout game with compelling features that are hard to experience elsewhere comes along in the meantime, I'd bite sooner - but I've not seen evidence of that game on the horizon (and the gamepad interaction is a non-starter for me).
I'd like Nintendo to go back to the drawing board as far as consoles are concerned and plan to have a machine with technical parity ready to launch for the next generation (PS5) with a killer launch lineup the likes of which they'e not had for a long time. And so yes, that means I'd like them to move past the Wii U sooner rather than later. I expect that, in any case, they will have to.
When they do, I'll be happy to grab
Yet Another Mario Game and/or
Yet Another Zelda Game on the cheap along with the very few (more interesting) original IPs/3rd party exclusives.
