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Worked out great for origins that launched the same week as Assassins Creed and Super Mario Land. Great job Nobody will give a damn about Rayman after E3, let alone when GTA 5 is on the horizon. More chance selling more copies to wii u owners now than in September.

Releasing in September when GTA5 is out suggests they dont.

Some crazy talented people on miiverse

Just remembered Nintendo are publishing this game in Japan as well. That sux for nintendo.

After E3 and GTA V drops nobody is going to give damn about rayman

Probably thought the hardware sales would of been better up until now.

It's Rayman and will bomb. You will be able to get it for £25 within a few weeks of release. It's crazy that someone can download a demo today for game that isnt out until September.

I think Zombie U will get ported as well.

The thing is Rayman doesnt sell anyway. It wont sell loads multiplatform. I would like to know the reason for the delay of the Wii U version when its ready? The Wii U cant catch a break right now. Have Ubisoft looked at the console sales, the sales of zombi U and then come to this decision?

This is a huge blow and at a mimimum it should of been released on Wii U as planned and then they could of done released the ports down the road. It's just more bad news another nail in the coffin regarding 3rd party support.

The game bombed in every region. Nobody cares about those characters. Unit market share in January for the UK: Yikes at the Wii U software sales (Nintendoland included). Selling less software than the Vita in the UK. The Wii U in the UK is on life support right now.

Quiet week in Japan PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale bombed hard!!

Ws in GAME on the weekend and they want £50 for this game. It's mental. They also want £40 for 3DS games. That shop operates on a different planet!!

Fifa sold 17.6k and Ni-No-Kuni beat it by a maximum of 500 units so it sold no more than 18.1k An indicator of how the UK market is right now and makes you wonder what numbers the games at the bottom of the chart are selling? The fact that the Vita and Wii U haven’t had any software in this chart for weeks now really isn’t a good look for either system.

Latest UK Top 40

And if one already bought those games when they were originally released on other consoles? Then what?

I think killing the wii of two years ago was massive. A new console should come at the end of the previous consoles life. The wii died a very slow death and people moved on to other things.

Nintendo doomed articles have been going around for years and I dont think anything will stop that. For me its too early to say which direction the wii u will go long term. Short term there will be more pain as they still have plenty wii u consoles to shift with no software to do just that so expect those articles to ramp up even more when the Q1 financials come out as they wont be pretty. Long term as long as the big ip's do what they usually do then the console should be fine. I would like to see more articles talking about things like 3rd party support. As a Wii U owner thats my major concern right now.

I dont have a balance board so thats me out. Is the Gamepad going to be an obstacle when they want to reduce the price?

They need to pack in a wiimote as well. I think Wii Sports 2 will do good numbers just as wii u fit will but neither will have the same impact as last time. Thats a not a criticism as the Wii was lightning in a bottle and would be near impossible for nintendo to replicate that.

Been saying forever that nintendo need to localise so many more games. Not all of them will sell huge amounts but there is enough of a core 3ds audience who will get those games.

Not really. If the argument is people are not spending money on essential items and penny pinching then they wouldnt be spending £400 on ipads. The difference is people have more choice now so its up to all those fighting for the consumers money to make there product desireable.

Yet people are buying Ipads, Nexus tablets, Kindle Fire tablets etc so to pin it on the economy really doesnt cut it. Its not simply about the brand. The console looks similar to the Wii. If a person walks into a game shop and sees the demo unit with the nunchuck and wiimote attached you can see why they could think its a wii. Same logo, similar looking console, same controllers. I have seen media reports calling it the Wii. We saw the confusion with the 3DS/DS and after that I dont think they should of left it to chance again. Prior to the 3DS every piece of Nintendo HW had a different logo. If Nintendo had no problem dropping thre Gameboy Brand which was huge there is no reason why they couldnt do the same with the Wii.

The name for starters. We saw what happened with the 3DS/DS. People may be silly for not knowing the difference but a different name totally seperate from Wii leaves no doubt that this is no wii add on. E32012 was a mess. I dont think anyone can claim otherwise. What we saw last week with the direct should of been the sort of thing showed at the last E3 before launch. To bang on about a 3rd party port and calling it a different game was insulting. The lineup should of been different. The lineup wasnt bad but when you take into account so many were old games then its a problem. Expensive old ports are not going to make people lay down £300 for a new console. The Japanese one even worse considering they have no new games until March. Thats crazy!! Addressed the lack of demo units in stores and lack of consistency. Some stores had them on, some didnt. Some had a demo, some didnt. The ones that did have a demo had no demo's of the titles that were actually out. A real aggressive marketing campaign just to get the product out there. I saw more Vita adverts before christmas than wii u. That isnt right when one of them is a brand new device. Make sure things like VC, Tivo were up and running from launch and the Eshop had content ready to go. We saw the 3DS launch with no Eshop and for it to happen again where key features were missing was disappointing. Of course its a lot easier for me on the outside post launch to come up with these things but there are people employed to make sure things are right and with the 3DS and Wii U it hasnt been.

Well the 3DS price cut was down to a badly prepared launch and lack of preparation. I like Iwata but its 2 bad launches on the trot now and the same mistakes being made. The Wii U seems rushed even though it wasn’t. They had 2 years to make sure the product would have the best launch possible and didn’t take advantage of that. In no way am I pinning it all on him as even in the US Reggie and co have a lot to answer for as well.