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Analyst - Nintendo will struggle to sell Wii U beyond their fan base

by rawmeatcowboy
14 January 2013
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The following comes from Baird's Colin Sebastian...

"We remain concerned that Nintendo's innovative Wii-U console will lack broad appeal beyond the core Nintendo fan base. Following a somewhat lackluster launch and holiday selling season, Nintendo will need to bring to market major first-party releases (Zelda) and retain the support of key third-party developers to reduce market share losses. In a negative scenario, Nintendo will be forced to prematurely lower the Wii-U price, and over the course of this cycle, we expect consideration will be given to extending first party franchises to other platforms."

Have we seen comments like these concerning other Nintendo platforms? Indeed we have...just about every one of them! Usually we hear something like this, then Nintendo announces some piece of software that surprises analysts. That goes on to jump-start sales, then analysts go back to being negative. Circle of life, my friends!

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