[Duo Maxwell]

Originally Posted by felix

With regard to WiiU, assuming Steam Machines flop (from being overpromised/underdelivered if nothing else) WiiU may see a quick gain in popularity (as it already has); since it's the console with the most exclusives, smallest form factor, perfect for your kids, and most of the things you don't see on it are on your PC right now anyway. People have already hacked the controller as far as I can tell. Right now the best move nintendo could make is to just open the entire thing up and offer a extra device to allow it to communicate to your PC (it wouldn't go against their policy of "we are also a hardware manufacturer so F U").

Nintendo gonna need that popularity, seeing their financial forecast going from 55 billions yen profit to 25 billions yen loss in net income doesn't look bright to them.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...i-u-games.html

Link to Nintendo's release: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140117e.pdf

Nintendo expects 2.8 million Wii-U sales down from 9 million and 3DS from 18 million down to 13.5 million.

3DS Software 80 million -> 66 million and Wii U software 38 million -> 19 million.

Also, most of Japanese games won't ever see PC release, so I don't really know why would people have to choose one over others.