Adam Sessler thinks Wii U will not launch this year

Quote :

increasing confident that the WiiU will a) not come out this year. b)will not provide the needed stimulation to the industry. I will probably eat my words on one of those points. By then I hope to have a video platform to apologize on. Selling console this Nov. with a price north of Borderlands, AC3, Halo 4 and CoD combined and announcing in Sept? - Adam Sessler

I like the guy but he does like to be a negative nancy sometimes. I disagree 100%. How can Nintendo set a date for Sept. 13 for a Wii U event just to announce a delay? Plus stores around America are getting promos for Wii U already. Why would that happen if it was to be delayed until 2013? On his other point, there are always at least 4 big games coming out during the holidays. If they always hindered launch sales of new home consoles developers would have taken the hint by now and the current trend would be to launch early the next year.

It does seem rather last minute to do a news event for a console that will launch only 2 months later but this fits the mold of how Nintendo has done things a bit differently this time. In fact it might have been beneficial to have waited until this years E3 to show off the GamePad. Microsoft and Sony have gotten smarter and didn't wait 3 years to imitate Nintendo innovation. Already we're seeing GamePad-like functionality from the other guys before Wii U even hits stores. If the GamePad wasn't revealed until this year then the other guys wouldn't have had enough time to figure out how to take Nintendo's ideas and make them their own within the year.

Now they just need to put out a few lousy games that use the functionality to prove that it's a failed concept...

You mean Nintendo or the other guys?

Sorry, I should have been clear: The other guys! They can discredit the Wii-U by making crappy tablet/console games now!