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They'll be fine. Every first party game they release sells better than most anything on Sony or MS consoles, and all their silly gimmicky sports and party games sell better. Yea their press conference sucked, but EVERY press conference sucked at E3 this year. There was one(ONE!) new IP that got any hype from the whole conference.

Cracked linked to a Youtube vid of a Star Wars Kinect game with Han Solo dancing to a Star Wars lyrics version of Like A Cholo.

There are no words.

I'm pretty sure plenty of people were saying the same thing about the Wii in the lead-up to that console being launched, and I think Nintendo did alright there.

Yes, it all looks ridiculous, but it'll sort itself out.

I think the integration with "ZombiU" (stupid name if they stick with that) looks pretty slick. 53min in the first video, for those interested

The Nintendo press conference was very underwhelming, but they positioned themselves so well with the Wii that they will probably be ok and get re-ups from the people they sucked in with the Wii the first time. Though I think this will probably be the first time in my life I'm not going to get a new Nintendo system within the first year of release.

I'd have agreed a couple of years ago, but the Wii's popularity seems to have really waned in the past couple of years as hardly any great games have come out (besides Zelda last fall).

As a purely anecdotal bit of evidence, I got a Wii in 2007 and was really excited about it. It was creative, and it was something my wife would actually play. I enjoyed the Mario Galaxy games, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Twilight Princess, etc. However, after that, it seemed like they ran out of ideas pretty quickly, and all the games I was looking forward to were either not out for the Wii, or were available in much better versions on PS3 or 360.

I still might buy the system at some point just because I love Mario/Zelda games, but I'm a DINK with too much money to spend. I'm curious who Nintendo's core market is going to be going forward.

Yeah the Wii was very innovative and fun for casual gamers when it came out in 2006, so Nintendo will have to push that characteristic of the WiiU if they want to sell those systems. Like when they showed that extended gameplay of that haunted house minigame for Nintendoland, it really only looked like something that would be fun for 15 minutes for casual gamers, but they'll need to push that stuff to get everyone to splurge again on a new system. The price point will be key - seems to me it can't go over $250 to start with.

Plus while it's nice that the WiiU will have the capabilities to play some of the current generation games on XBox 360 and PS3, what are they going to do when Microsoft and Sony release systems with even greater capabilities?

Nintendo is f'd. The Wii was a POS that intrigued people because it was different for all of 5 minutes (which is why myself and a ton of other people I know have one). That novelty is gone now, and a new screen on the controller (which will probably cost $100) isn't going to replace that. Your average gamer wants a console that has great graphics, a solid online experience, and other multimedia features, like video playback, streaming content, etc. the Wii had none of that and WiiU probably won't have most of it either. There's a reason that Nintendo is the first out of the gate for the next round of consoles, and it's because the Wii was such a steaming pile that they could no longer make a profit on it and developers didn't want to develop for it. I used to love Nintendo, but their business model is shit. They just aren't getting it.

And the WiiU is going to be at least $300, maybe more.

This country is going to pot and you guys are playing video games?

Unreal.

This system is for children, why is anyone getting worked up about it.

ok, so i'm going to put a $100 controller into the hands of a child? i remember what i did with controllers when i was a child and lost at a video game.