Well, increasing revenues and margins can both be a huge challenge, which is why companies tend to do mass layoffs and restructuring.
Wii U retail impressions?
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Well, increasing revenues and margins can both be a huge challenge, which is why companies tend to do mass layoffs and restructuring.
Stock price aside my main problem; The backward capability of the wii is kinda hacked into the OS. The wii mode seems to be running in a virtual machine which sucks for those people who want to upgrade and have all their wii stuff in the wii-u menu. I guess they want to kill any chance of easy hacking but at least its not as bad as the ps3.
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Mass layoffs = margin xD
Mass layoffs are often the result of inefficient growth, and efficient growth should happen AFTER you've made an efficient business model (high Ebit). You have to be ready for growth. Too many companies grow and then run into the problems that grew along with them, often exponentially.
Just for some comparison numbers, the Xbox 360 sold more than 750,000 consoles in the U.S. alone for the same time period this year [Sunday, Nov. 18 – Friday, Nov. 23].
Yeah, but supposedly Wuu is stock limited. I can't really see why given the apparent simplicity of the design. I don't know what the limiting factor is in manufacturing amount. I'd imagine a million a month could easily be made, and with a few months lead time prior to general release, there should be a stockpile of several million available to sell, no?
tongue_of_colicab
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There was the rumor of production issues relating to the tablet, right? Maybe that has something to do with it though I can't see what exactly what could be so hard to produce.
Is it out globally?
I haven't seen any commercials for it.. Nor any buzz in the papers.. Though I work investment banking hours so I don't get to watch much tv
I haven't seen any commercials for it.. Nor any buzz in the papers.. Though I work investment banking hours so I don't get to watch much tv
Gradthrawn
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Strange, I got my Wii (Black Edition) and some extra controllers from Amazon a couple of years back.
That's all fine and dandy, but where's the extended battery option for adults?
And more importantly, have you updated your Popcorn Hours firmware yet and do you have impressions of BD ISO streaming for the PS3/360 Media Player comparison thread yet?
i think it's a newer thing. the rumor is goes back to some dispute between nintendo and amazon over 3ds hardware.
Basic version seems to be the 3ds faceplate was scratching screens, so amazon got a high number of returns. Tried to dump those units on nintendo, nintendo said not our problem. Feud ensues. thats entirely rumor AFAIK mind you, but I'm guessing has truth to it.
i am sure once the wii u fails miserably, people will be looking for scapegoats and that will be a good ancillary one to blame. "Well, the whole Amazon not carrying hardware thing really hurt nintendo", I can see the posts now.
Well I wonder if they just aren't concerned with that market, the adult market. Maybe they figure adults that care about their ip's will buy a Nintendo machine one way or another, in the meantime they will just focus on the young kids market where they are still very strong. Just a thought anyways, but with products like their new Wii Mini that was just announced makes me think they are more focused on the < 10 years of age kids market. It's not an unreasonable strategy, get them hooked young and you can have them as customers when they are older just from things like brand and ip familiarity.
And more importantly, have you updated your Popcorn Hours firmware yet and do you have impressions of BD ISO streaming for the PS3/360 Media Player comparison thread yet?
I'll answer over in that thread
Nintendo said not, but maybe it can be powered by USB. Edit: Apparently Nintendo just didn't confirm it. If Wii U can work with USB, why not just provide that instead of the PSU? User reviews at BestBuy sound like the cable if a guess and not actually designed (or capable) for the job. Other comments found suggest the initial batch assumed a DSI type power connector and the cable doesn't work, but a new model fits the Wuu.
Thats what I thought. Would be odd. Maybe its like Kindle Fire where you can charge with USB but they sell a separate PSU for mains charging which charges more rapidly? I'd be interested to know if this thing takes ages to charge over USB or somthing?
As long as it powers it, thats all i'm worried about as at least then the option to play with it plugged in (ie when the battery dies mid game) is open. A wall socket would be more awkward for me (althought still possible depening on the elngth of the cable)
If it can charge over USB, why not use a USB PSU like mobile phones/tablets and a long USB cable for playing wired?
Growing old is horrible
Has anybody experienced the problem of being too old to play the WIIU?
I had a demo of an imported model last night and it occurred to me that WIIU gaming, or any tablet/TV combination gaming for that matter, is going to be restricted to a relatively young age group and be nowhere near as inclusive as say the WII was where grandma and grandad could have a go at a bit of bowling.
I've reached my mid fourties and require reading glasses, but if I wear my glasses to see the tablet then I can't see the TV, so I had to constantly take them off and on. I could buy half moon glasses or varifocals, but I'm not sure the gaming benifits of twin screens outweigh the expense and inconvinience.
I can't be the oldest person on this forum, anyone else run into this?
Has anybody experienced the problem of being too old to play the WIIU?
I had a demo of an imported model last night and it occurred to me that WIIU gaming, or any tablet/TV combination gaming for that matter, is going to be restricted to a relatively young age group and be nowhere near as inclusive as say the WII was where grandma and grandad could have a go at a bit of bowling.
I've reached my mid fourties and require reading glasses, but if I wear my glasses to see the tablet then I can't see the TV, so I had to constantly take them off and on. I could buy half moon glasses or varifocals, but I'm not sure the gaming benifits of twin screens outweigh the expense and inconvinience.
I can't be the oldest person on this forum, anyone else run into this?
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Ouch! That's rough...
Fortunately I'm nearsighted myself ("fortunately"... *sigh*) and see well both at short and long distances with a single pair of glasses. Well, not as well as I used to when I was younger, but well enough anyway.Tablet gaming seems to be catching on extremely well with the younger generation, I was at one of the apple premium retailers in my city the other day and saw a kid about maybe third grade age or so, standing at an ipad playing a truck driving/missile/gun shooting game and calmly poking at the screen. It looked very natural to him, like if you stuck a NES joypad in the hands of a kid the same age 25 years ago they instinctively knew how to use it.
So if wuu is going to be successful, I think it's almost a given that the young will have to do the heavy lifting there. Middle-aged guys with glasses (like you and me) probably aren't part of nintendo's focus groups. The barrier with tablet gaming on the wuu though is that it isn't multitouch capable, and isn't really a tablet either since the screen area is so small in proportion to the whole gadget, so it can't play the same games as say an ipad.
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