During an interview at last week’s E3, Reggie was asked whether or not he thought the Wii U could ever outsell the Playstation 4 or Xbox One. He had the following to say:
“The dirty little secret is if you look at life-to-date numbers, between Sony and Nintendo they’d be pretty close in terms of PS4 vs. Wii U, with Xbox coming in third place,”
“I think it’s going to be a three-horse race for the balance of this cycle.”
Reggie admitted that the delays of Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 caused issues for the console at launch but also doesn’t think that warrants another console right away:
“We think that the Wii U has a long and vibrant life in front of it,”
“What it needs are games like Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros Wii U and Splatoon – those types of games that can really drive the installed base. We believe if we can do that effectively the Wii U has a long and robust life.”
“The interesting point there is that when we announced the Wii U and when we announced all of the launch details, we fully expected games like Wii Fit U, Pikmin, the The Wonderful 101 to be in the launch window,”
“The Nintendo quality bar is really what kept us from launching those games potentially in February or March and so that’s what created the lack of software during that initial launch phase.”
Nintendo had a pretty great E3 this year. Austin and I react to more of the news, including Splatoon, Star Fox Wii U, Zelda Wii U, Hyrule Warriors, and more!
Part 1 here:
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Three more games should be reaching the North American Wii U eShop this week. Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition, How to Survive, and Color Zen Kids will all launch in just a few days, assuming listings on the Wii U eShop are correct. Each will release on June 19.
ON THIS EPISODE: It’s all E3 all the time, today! As you’d expect, we talk in depth about all of the worthwhile announcements from E3, with highlighted pointed on Splatoon, Zelda Wii U, and the amiibo figurine platform.
PLUS: We somehow managed to talk more about the Tomodachi Life marriage controversy, despite that being more or less “over”.
AND: A tiny shred of listener mail rounds out the week, as usual!
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There aren’t any plans to bring the Tales series to Wii U – at least for now.
Series producer Hideo Baba ruled out development for Nintendo’s console at Anime 2014 in the Netherlands this past weekend. However, he did say that “nothing is impossible.”
On the topic of Wii U, Baba stated:
There are no plans to put it on the Wii U console in the future, but nothing is impossible.
