Nintendo Ends Wii Production in Japan

[exfileme]

Nintendo is no longer producing Wii consoles.

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[Peacelol]

Nintendo has also demonstrated that when you only appeal to an audience that doesn't care about HD Graphics, that same audience doesn't care to go buy their latest Gen. console.

What's the point if they're still having plenty of fun with their Wii?

 

[jdwii]

I admit i love Nintendo my first console that was mine was the gamecube(i bought the wii with my own money and it was a let down traded it in for a 360 which was a bigger let down and even broke twice and then sold the 360 for my first video card+CPU)

Either way the gamecube was amazing and so was the N64+Snes+Nes which i ended up owning from my older brothers all 4 still work today with out any issues.

 

[Nikolai Allen]

You might want to revise, the Xbox 360 does have backwards compatibility. In fact, I don't even think it have digital downloads of original Xbox games anymore.

 

[SteelCity1981]

the xbox 360 wasn't backwards compatible out of the box you would have to download an emulator patch for it via xbox live to play xbox games. The Wii U and the first model ps3's you didn't.

 

[catfishtx]

Ok, this is going to come off as an avid fanboy \ salesman, but now that my daughter bought herself a Wii U and I have seen it in action, it is a completely underrated console. It's a lot more than a Wii with a tablet. It supports external USB storage, HD graphics, backwards compatible with Wii, and it controls the TV and the DirecTV receiver. That's only the things I have actually seen it do. Also, using the tablet when gaming is much more natural than I ever thought possible.

It is a really good console that Nintendo has done a TERRIBLE job of marketing.

 

[ddpruitt]

It is a really good console that Nintendo has done a TERRIBLE job of marketing.

I have to agree. The U's tablet controller has some really nifty features that are very useful but Nintendo has neglected to capitalize. Plus the fact that you can use all your Wii stuff on the U is a huge draw,

 

[nzon3]

The power consumption of the Wii U is under 100-watts and couple that with its tablet controller, one can take it along the long drive. Every time I do a 6+ hours drive, I would plug it to the van's AC outlet and the kids loved it. I wish they have additional tablet for sale as accessories.

 

[SteelCity1981]

next year at this time due to ongoing poor sales Nintendo announces it will stop production of the Wii U.

 

[Pallimud]

People forget that the 3DS had slow sales to start and now it's a success. The same thing happened with the original Wii. The Wii U launch is pretty normal, it takes about a year for Nintendo's gaming consoles to pick up steam, mainly because people buy Nintendo for the games, not the console. So once a great package of games are available, sales pick up big time.

I don't understand why articles don't make this point. It's like a repeat every single time, that's why I have faith in whatever Nintendo does rather than what critics have to say.

 

[velocityg4]

It is a really good console that Nintendo has done a TERRIBLE job of marketing.

I'll say, it wasn't until over a year after it was released I realized it was a replacement for the Wii. When I saw the tablet and name I just thought it was a replacement for the Nintendo DS.

I thought it was a handheld that let you play Wii games. Just as the Nomad played Genesis games.

As I have zero interest in a handheld I never looked further.

 

[kinggraves]

Yeah, I wouldn't expect any production on Wii U to stop considering the hype from the new Smash Bros. alone. They just haven't gotten the big titles out fast enough, which is due to a higher standard of quality than most AAA devs. Nintendo doesn't release a game because "it's Christmas" even if they aim for it, they release it when it's done. Their big titles weren't done on time for this year, but next year they should start moving units. Once the hardware starts moving then 3rd party devs will start porting to it again, just like they did with Wii. Unfortunately this means they squandered the head start they got from releasing before the other next gen systems. Sony and MS have had opportunities to copy ideas from the Wii U like a social UI and second screen functionality. Nintendo doesn't have the hardware advantage so they need their innovation advantage. They really seem to be pretending there is no competition either. They could easily counter the whole "no games" thing by pointing out they're the only system this time around with real backwards compatibility.