The Market May Be Wrong About the Wii U
I'll admit that I found aspects of the Nintendo (OTC BB: NTDOY.PK) Wii U puzzling at first -- but I found the market's reaction even more baffling. Based on the beating Nintendo's stock price took in the days following its announcement, the market has declared this upcoming system a failure. I wouldn't venture to label the Wii U gaming's next big hit, but I do think investors have judged it prematurely.
What we know The Wii U will finally bring Nintendo into the HD era, but the real story is its new controller, which looks like the unholy union of a tablet and an Xbox gamepad. It's seriously the most tricked-out controller I've ever seen. In addition to the standard collection of buttons, triggers, and joysticks, this beast sports a 6.2" touchscreen, microphone, camera, gyroscope, and accelerometer. It's so packed with features that no one is really sure what developers will do with it -- but that uncertainty isn't the cause of investors' alarm.
Why the market's running away Part of the reasoning behind Nintendo's slide is that analysts don't think the Wii U will bring casual gamers back from smartphones and tablets. You can pretty much blame Nintendo's recent history for their concern. The Wii appealed to a lot of consumers who wouldn't normally play videogames, which led to unprecedented hardware sales. The console was so successful that Microsoft and Sony both rushed to release their own motion controllers. For a while, it seemed that gaming was shifting toward casual players.
I think this apparent sea change led many investors to focus too much on casual games. That would explain why the success of Zumba Fitness Unfortunately, keeping casual players interested is a lot harder than attracting them in the first pace. Since peaking in 2009, sales of both the Wii consoles and software have steadily declined. After the novelty of bowling in their living rooms wore off, casual gamers abandoned the system. And because it doesn't have the horsepower to create the visuals that core gamers demand, the system's only support comes from the die-hard Nintendo fans.
I don't think that Nintendo will abandon the casual crowd -- it appears that players have the option of using the old Wii remote, so you can probably still bowl -- but I believe that the company has recognized that core gamers keep consoles alive.
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PK) Wii U puzzling at first -- but I found the market's reaction even more baffling. Based on the beating Nintendo's stock price took in the days following its announcement, the market has declared this upcoming system a failure.
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“Honestly speaking, the reaction to (Tuesday’s) presentation and what I heard from people I met and the mood of the convention did not chime at all with what happened in the stock market,” Iwata said in an interview. “It’s very strange.
“In the end, it is easy to get the mistaken impression that this is just a game console with a tablet. People who came to the presentation and tried it out have understood very well that it opens up a lot of new possibilities. But people who have not tried it will find it hard to believe that this controller will change things.”
“Because we put so much emphasis on the controller, there appeared to be some misunderstandings,” Iwata told the Evening Standard. “We should have made more effort to explain how it works.”
- Nintendo president Satoru Iwata
I think their presentation of the console was sort of odd. They mainly focused on the controller and didn’t show the console (this confused a lot of people on how it worked), and they only had “experiences” and not real games.
It sort of makes me wonder why they revealed the console so early. Yes I know it comes out next year but they didn’t announce anything for it. I guess I am happy that the Wii remote is still one of the main controllers for the new console, at least that will save some money.
The shares dropped mostly because people that haven’t played it do not understand it.
I really think the reason why this has happend is because they have not fully showed us the specs of the console. But if they keep giving us wonderful news about it that should help. I’f you are wondering what I mean by wonderful news I am talking about how there going to use a ibm power 7 cord and a 25 gb disk and if they put in a R8000 series core they should be set for a long time. I also think that would help with investors aswell because they would feel that Nintendo is not going anywhere.
It dropped I think because the conference was confusing and they only showed tech demos. They should have brought the controller and console on stage and showed ACTUAL gameplay. Maybe then more people would have understood the concept. As it is right now I have no interest in the system. Also it didn’t help that for some games they used PS3 and 360 game footage.
I think they are waiting on the Nintendo Press Conference that happens in (I think it’s July?). They are smart to break the news into little bits and pieces. Even if it pisses off the fans doing so builds hype and will snowball in the year to come. If I were invested in Nintendo I would be more concerned with the handheld market. I personally prefer the highly stylistic franchises that are associated with Nintendo to Sony or Microsoft but I’m thinking of getting a Vida vs. 3DS. The system is that much more impressive are there seems to be more games promised at launch for Vida than there are games for the 3DS a year after release.
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