Report - Nintendo to Halt Wii U Production by 2017 - UPDATED

[Fox12]

And here's the biggest problem. Nintendo's atrocious marketing. They may have the worst marketing of any gaming company I've ever seen. It's all way too confusing. Now they're going to try and rush this out the door, and they'll go on to make all of the same old mistakes.

Nintendo's marketing problem has only been with the WiiU, I think mostly just because they don't care about it as much as they did the Wii or the DS. I mean, they freakin' won awards for their advertising for the Wii, it was so innovative and successful.

I think it's worse then that. Look at the New 3DS. I didn't even realize it was a separate machine until recently. I mean, between the 2DS and 3DS XL I just assumed it was another expansion. You mentioned the Wii's marketing, and you're absolutely right. It was genius, and it was everywhere. But I can't remember seeing almost anything on the WiiU. The one commercial I did see had a guy in a dry monotone voice carefully explaining that the WiiU is seperate from the Wii. I don't know what happened to Nintendo's marketing department, but it seems to fluctuate between non-existant to actively confusing.

Don't get me wrong, I hope they improve. I like Nintendo. They have real energy, and they're my second favorite of the big three. It's just frustrating to see a promising product fail due to woeful marketing.

EDIT: Shit, they even leaked Seaman on the 3DS, which Iwata himself denied. Now you'd think that since that game didn't actually exist, they would be wrong. But Yoot Saito, creator of Seaman wrote a blog post after Iwata passed away where it turned out that Iwata contacted Saito to port Seaman to the 3DS.

But why? How many people died to lock that game beneath the hellmouth?

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[AzrealMaximillion]

Most of the time Nintendo denying something only gets flipped months later when it winds up true. The Wii-U's days are numbers in the short term regardless.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I just wish they'd tell us what the NX IS already.

Gotta wait for the E3 wankfest just like everyone else.

Yes, since Nintendo's marketing has been pretty goddamned awful since the Wii U's release.

 

[gigastar]

I just wish they'd tell us what the NX IS already.

Gotta wait for the E3 wankfest just like everyone else.

Yes, since Nintendo's marketing has been pretty goddamned awful since the Wii U's release.

While i didnt find the style or what was on show appealing in the slightest, at least they kept on about games.

As compared to EAs stunt with the car last year.