cmdrdredd
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I think the Wii U will pickup once the real games start appearing. That just didn't happen and the system is more expensive than the original Wii. The people who had Wiis collecting dust sure weren't going to buy into the Wii U that's for sure.
I believe that after the initial hype wears off the next Xbox and PS4 will have similar troubles. Aside from perhaps low supply, there will no doubt be somewhat of a drout before the next big releases and sales will drop.
As for E3, Nintendo decided to forgo the key note speech. Year after year they waste time with stock and sales projections, recapping last year's sales and whatever. They have no new hardware to show. They are going to have smaller events focused on their new games. This was mentioned in the various articles I saw on other sites. They aren't dropping out of E3, but rather trying to wow people with games instead of bore them with people in suits talking about how many 3Ds systems they sold. To me it appears they want to separate the business news which has seemingly been what the E3 press conference was about, from the news about games and trying to get people excited for games.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/25/no-nintendo-press-conference-at-e3-2013
I believe that after the initial hype wears off the next Xbox and PS4 will have similar troubles. Aside from perhaps low supply, there will no doubt be somewhat of a drout before the next big releases and sales will drop.
As for E3, Nintendo decided to forgo the key note speech. Year after year they waste time with stock and sales projections, recapping last year's sales and whatever. They have no new hardware to show. They are going to have smaller events focused on their new games. This was mentioned in the various articles I saw on other sites. They aren't dropping out of E3, but rather trying to wow people with games instead of bore them with people in suits talking about how many 3Ds systems they sold. To me it appears they want to separate the business news which has seemingly been what the E3 press conference was about, from the news about games and trying to get people excited for games.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/25/no-nintendo-press-conference-at-e3-2013
"Unlike previous years, we will not have a large-scale [E3] presentation directed to everyone in the world,” Iwata said according to the translation. “Instead, we are planning several smaller events focusing on software for America. Among these hands-on events will be one for American distributors and another for western media.”
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