The whole problem with the WiiU is that every 3rd party has bailed- Warner and Ubi were the only ones left, and the sales information in the NPD this month- Batman and Assassin's Creed on WiiU accounted for about 1% of each games respective sales, meaning they are likely to bail. Its back to Nintendo exclusives only, and considering how slow Nintendo are at cranking them out, it's going to suck. I can't in good faith reccomend a system to someone for 300 dollars when they are going to buy no more than 2 or 3 games per year for the system. The Wii audience that loved Wii Sports has moved on to iPad.
And the worst part is, Nintendo did a terrible job engineering the system. It apparently costs $180 to make the WiiU, with 50 of that going to the controller. Unless they can get the cost down, it's going to have to be more than 200 dollars, to account for the fact that Nintendo refuses to loose money on hardware and the cut for distributors/R&D/stores. They should have found a way to make the system cheaper- the 360 cost less to make when it came out 8 years ago, and the hardware inside this thing isn't appreciably more powerful.
And the worst part is, Nintendo did a terrible job engineering the system. It apparently costs $180 to make the WiiU, with 50 of that going to the controller. Unless they can get the cost down, it's going to have to be more than 200 dollars, to account for the fact that Nintendo refuses to loose money on hardware and the cut for distributors/R&D/stores. They should have found a way to make the system cheaper- the 360 cost less to make when it came out 8 years ago, and the hardware inside this thing isn't appreciably more powerful.
wait, shit, this isn't the gaming side. nvm
