Wii U Still Selling Below Cost

[Lightknight]

I kind of assume that they can handle more than just the engine at barebones when they make statements like that. Howeveer that is an equally interesting perspective. I guess I just envisioned it as them playing a full game with said engine on it?
As opposed to just putting the engine itself on the system and assuming it would work.

A "full" game is a relative term. Remember when the gamecube and even the Wii got some trimmed down versions of the games that were on the more powerful systems? Those were the same engine but not the full game at all.

It'd be like saying my phone can play skyrim but the assets are now stick figure drawings and there are no persistent environments and no dragons and really no enemies at all and it's 3rd person. It just means their comment is meaningless without more context. If the WiiU can play Crysis 1 then it can play their engine. But that's a really old game at this point.

Keep it civil though?
I mean, there is no reason for any company that wants to be taken seriously (or as seriously anyone can take EA) to basically act like children with corporate money about it.
A simple "We have no games currently in development at this time" would suffice.
However going on social media and acting like a 12 year old angry fan doesn't make you look good. And if you want to make games for the company later down the road, it will add a lot of...tension to the deal.

As a publically traded company they should be honest to their investors who may have been asking that question in mass. I don't know why they should pull their punches if EA had traditionally had a strong offering with the WiiU. I also don't see how stating the facts out loud would harm them. If anything, this would probably have benefitted them by showing a clear distancing from a sinking ship.

 

[Lightknight]

Was this "News" article just written as an excuse to dump on the Wii U some more? Like this site hasn't done that enough already. Here's a hint: if the title of your story contains the adverb "still", it probably isn't worth reporting.

Wii U bashing is all the fad now on Gaming news sites didn't you know?

Of course for once, Kotaku is doing something right by not falling in line with the crowd, and actually posts a positive article on the system once in a while.

Wii U bashing is the fad? This is gaming news. Why wouldn't they report on dismall sales and developers bowing out of creating content for it? The job of reporters is to report. The job of video game reporters is to report on gaming news and a failing Dreamcast-esque console is where its at. Nintendo themselves have acknowledged the issue and have put forward multiple faults on their part for why this could be happening. Was Nintendo in on the fad then?

For $350 I can get a 32gb WiiU with a $17 game bundled in. The system can't play DVDs or CDs that aren't wii disks. The system is also known to be significantly weaker than the competitors.
For $400 I can get a 500GB PS4 with no game bundled in but the system can play everything from blurays to cds to DVDs. This console is known to be the strongest console on the market.

Nintendo has admitted to failures in three areas:
1. Marketing: Some people still don't know that the WiiU is the Wii2. As such, it looks like an expensive tablet peripheral.
2. Games: Nintendo hasn't released games that are worth buying the system for.
3. Experience: Nintendo stated that they haven't yet conveyed why the WiiU is a new experience that is worth purchasing.

You can't call this faceless bandwagon that just wants them to fail. This is the story of them failing and the reporting is the why of it, not the cause of it.

 

[Dragonbums]

Was this "News" article just written as an excuse to dump on the Wii U some more? Like this site hasn't done that enough already. Here's a hint: if the title of your story contains the adverb "still", it probably isn't worth reporting.

Wii U bashing is all the fad now on Gaming news sites didn't you know?

Of course for once, Kotaku is doing something right by not falling in line with the crowd, and actually posts a positive article on the system once in a while.

Wii U bashing is the fad? This is gaming news. Why wouldn't they report on dismall sales and developers bowing out of creating content for it? The job of reporters is to report. The job of video game reporters is to report on gaming news and a failing Dreamcast-esque console is where its at. Nintendo themselves have acknowledged the issue and have put forward multiple faults on their part for why this could be happening. Was Nintendo in on the fad then?

For $350 I can get a 32gb WiiU with a $17 game bundled in. The system can't play DVDs or CDs that aren't wii disks. The system is also known to be significantly weaker than the competitors.
For $400 I can get a 500GB PS4 with no game bundled in but the system can play everything from blurays to cds to DVDs. This console is known to be the strongest console on the market.

Nintendo has admitted to failures in three areas:
1. Marketing: Some people still don't know that the WiiU is the Wii2. As such, it looks like an expensive tablet peripheral.
2. Games: Nintendo hasn't released games that are worth buying the system for.
3. Experience: Nintendo stated that they haven't yet conveyed why the WiiU is a new experience that is worth purchasing.

You can't call this faceless bandwagon that just wants them to fail. This is the story of them failing and the reporting is the why of it, not the cause of it.

Because seeing around...2 articles in one week saying the Wii U is garbage is kind of tiring to see.
We know that the Wii U isn't doing so stellar.
We don't need 5 articles per website to remind us about it.
When you, as a website collective do stuff like that you tend to annoy those who actually like the system your writing negative articles on, and you tire out those who just want to see news aside from "Wii U is failing."