Scott Moffitt, the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nintendo of America,
firmly believes that the price set on the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 make the Wii U a great value proposition for us, the consumers. Moffitt says that the only way to experience their franchises is going to be on the Wii U and there’s no plans for a price cut for the system anytime soon.
During Nintendo’s financial results briefing, Satoru Iwata had stated that he feels that it is Nintendo’s responsibility for not properly marketing the Nintendo Wii U. Nintendo knows that they haven’t sold the system well enough because there are many people who still believe that the Nintendo Wii U’s Gamepad is a mere extension to last generations Wii or that the Wii U is simply just another Wii that came with a tablet. Iwata believes that this is a great challenge for the company to try and persuade people into purchasing the product while trying to properly communicate that the system is a new product rather than a new addition to an already existing product.
Regarding Wii U, the release intervals of first-party key titles have been so much longer than we expected at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing in January that we have not successfully maintained the momentum of the platform. In addition, we have not been able to solidly communicate the product value of Wii U to our consumers yet, which has been a grand challenge for us.
Some have the misunderstanding that Wii U is just Wii with a pad for games, and others even consider Wii U GamePad as a peripheral device connectable to Wii. We feel deeply responsible for not having tried hard enough to have consumers understand the product.
Wii U might still have no such captivating game title as “Wii Sports” for Wii, with which people immediately comprehended its product value, but it surely has a lot of factors appreciated by users. We would like to take time to work thoroughly for its penetration, by making various efforts to have many people understand its product value as well as enriching the software lineup.
So title says all. Nintendo’s stocks have been the highest since the Wii U release in nearly 4 months. It generated more revenue than it’s predecessor, the Wii (at least in the United States. I don’t know about anything else). Stocks rose by 5.6, nearly at 9,070 yen, which has been the biggest gain since September. The Wii U made $300 million 41 days after release, while the Wii made $270 million the same time after release. Now I’m not a stock market expert (I know almost nothing), but this kind of stock raise is really good. Now all that Nintendo has to worry about is a way to keep that stock to be stable, or rising.
“The U.S. sales report prompted investors to jump on Nintendo. Still, “the gain may be short-lived unless it can sustain sales momentum.”
Makoto Sengoku, a Tokyo-based market analyst at Tokai Tokyo Securities Co
Sorry for my league of absense. I had finals. I would post the Featured Music thing today, but I don’t have time to look for one right now. Basically, title says all. Thieves in the United States managed to steal $2 million of Wii Us by raiding a warehouse at SeaTac’s Seattle Air Cargo. The thieves drove 2 large trucks into Nintendo’s distribution center, and took 7,000 Wii U consoles. They worked together using forklifts to load the consoles onto the trucks. Here’s what the police said:
“If we don’t get any tips ahead of time, it will be the selling of these consoles that will lead to their capture. It’s gonna be pretty hard to hide 7,000 Wii game consoles.”
The thing that amazes me is how this happened without anyone noticing anything suspicious at all. Wasn’t there any type of guard or lock system at all? hm…..
Posted by: NintenStar
Posted on: November 3rd, 2012
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Tags: Wii U
Once upon a time, legend has it that on Nintendo’s website, New Super Mario Bros. U was said to run at 1080p. Legend also says that Nintendo replaced 1080p with ‘high definition’. It is also said that Nintendo updated their site saying that News Super Mario Bros. U will not run at 1080p. So what’d you guys think of my story? Basically. title says everything.
The previously stated information about video output for this game was inaccurate. The Wii U console supports video output of up to 1080p.
While all Wii U software titles display high definition graphics, resolution for specific titles may vary
So this basically proves that there will be Wii U consoles that won’t have 1080p. I mean sure it was a bit obvious, but you’d think that was for some 3rd party games.
Posted by: NintenStar
Posted on: November 2nd, 2012
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Tags: Wii U
Basically, the Wii U’s browser got a really high score for this test. Thir browser was ranked highly among all of the other browsers for gaming devices. Except for the Playstation 3. I honestly don’t know why it was cut. The Wii U browser scored the highest with a score of 323. The closest competitor was the beta browser for the PS Vita, which has 243. Microsoft’s release of IE9 on the 360 scored 120. The 360 has the highest scored results out of all of the gaming browsers released, followed up by the 3DS. I honestly don’t know what these numbers mean. But that’s for you guys. This is out of 500 points.
Posted by: ArabDiSASTER
Posted on: September 13th, 2012
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Hello there everyone, we have some great news to share with you! Today, the WiiU has officially been announced a release date and a price, with two versions in fact!
The WiiU will come in two versions:
WiiU Standard 8GB Bundle – $299.99 USD/$349.95 AUD
WiiU Deluxe 32GB Bundle With Nintendo Land – $349.99 USD/$429.95 AUD
So as far as I can tell, the white WiiU is only for standard, and the black WiiU is only for Deluxe, but I could be wrong…
The WiiU’s release date is on November 18th in the USA, November 30th in Europe and Australia, and December 8th in Japan.
On September 13th, Nintendo is holding a Wii U event. Acording to an anonymous source, there will also be a Wii U conference in San Diego sometime next month. But that’s probably meant for Nintendo representatives instead of the press. I don’t know if there will be a meeting in San Diego. I mean, there’s already one in New York. I don’t see why there’s another one needed. If it’s about the development, then they could do that in Kyoto (aka Nintend HQ), or somewhere like that.
Now some of you may remember that article that was posted a while ago. It was the idea of how strong the Wii U will be against the PS4 and new Xbow (720?). So, Satoru Iwata has stated that Nintendo isn’t bothered about how powerful Sony and Microsoft’s next gen consoles are compared to the Wii U. But, he says that Nintendo will give something new and unique for gamers-like the Wii did.
“We have not changed our strategy. In other words, we just do not care what kind of ‘more beef’ console Microsoft and Sony might produce in 2013. Our focus is on how we can make our new console different than [others].”
Personally, I think that Nintendo shouldn’t be completley not caring about competition. Without competition, the system won’t be as powerful as it could’ve been. Let’s say that Nintendo was focused a little more on competition. If that happened, then it would be a more powerful system. But that’s what I think.
The Wii U gamepad and the PSP Vita are both touchscreen devices. The vice-president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Scott Rodhe, says that the PSP Vita is better. (Well it is the vice-president of the company that developed the PSP Vita. So it was completley biased). He’s basing it on the fact that the “Wii U tablet doesn’t have a processor in it.” Unlike the Wii U tablet, the PSP Vita and the 3DS are handheld gaming devices. Like the PSP Vita, the 3DS has it’s own processor; also like the PSP Vita, the 3DS can connect to a console. I believe that Nintendo has already confirmed that the Wii U will be no more than about $300 (USD). The PSP Vita was about $500 (also USD) when it first came out. Then there’s the additional memory. I don’t remember exactly how much it is to get more memory storage for the PSP Vita, but it’s a lot.
“That Wii U tablet doesn’t have a processor in it, so it’s got to be fueled by that box sitting under your TV.”
“We can do some pretty special things that you’ll start to see on the [E3] floor this year and you’ll see more over the upcoming months about what you can do when you actually have a processor in the thing that’s in your hand as well.”
“It’s only been three months though, just three months. There are a lot of games on that machine and I think what we have to hang our hat on… Every single person that actually picks that thing up absolutely loves it.”
