Wii U production ending this week

The time has come, and sooner than expected, Nintendo is ending Wii U production this Friday, November 4th 2016, although shipments are expected to continue along in 2018. Perharps we could start considering collecting Wii U stuff, let's hope that the new Zelda at least comes in physical form for this console.
But to me, it's starting to feel like a second Dreamcast, with all the piracy going very strong and emulator on PC already available.

Sources:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/11/report-wii-u-production-will-end-this-week/
http://www.polygon.com/wii-u/2016/11/1/13487008/wii-u-dead-production-ends

 

"It's not a WiiU replacement."
I'm laughing

 

When did they say this?

I actually think Nintendo supported it for so long after it stopped selling to prevent it from becoming a Dreamcast.
Piracy didn't kill the DC, lack of faith in Sega did. Sega was notorious for dropping support of consoles soon after release and screwing over businesses and consumers.

 

I seem to be mislead

"It's not a 3DS replacement"
Makes me laugh even harder

 

wii u had very lackluster sales
they will kill it off like the sega saturn
so watch out for some of those late releases on wii u
history repeats itself

 

I think piracy actually played a huge part in the death of the Dreamcast. By the end of it's life, everyone just had binders full of burned CD-Rs (according to Jeff Gerstmann).

 

F

 

I'd pour out a 40 for the Wii U, but I never owned one.

Watch at least 90% of the Wii U library will be ported to the switch.

 

rip

 

I'd like to think I'm not the only one who avoided the tablet fad...

 

Wow sales must be pretty low, or production was really high if they have enough units to last 2 years.

 

You make it sound like kids don't have iPhone that cost more.

 

Never stopped me from carrying my $299 3G Vita around, even when it was actually worth something :/

 

People were buying used ones often. Complete crap really, bought it to play two games then sold the lot. There was no effort put in at all, plain as day.

 

False alarm
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/11/02/wii-u-production-isnt-ending-november-4-2016/

 

Already ordered my extended WiiU battery, oh well I've been wanting to pull that trigger for a while now

 

Well that's the second time a rumor about Wiiu production has turned out to be false.

 

Piracy didn't kill the Dreamcast. Back then blank CD's and burners where not as cheap as they are today. I was a huge Dreamcast fan back then and I barely knew anyone who burned games for it.

From all the research I have done it was SEGA's lack of 3rd party support and trust from consumers. SEGA burned people (devs included) in the past with systems like the Saturn. On top of that they had to make a lot of their own games (ironically that's how the 2k sports series started) and they where bleeding money.

In the end they pretty much ran out of money and discontinued the Dreamcast before they went broke.

Sorry for the long comment by the way. Its late here and I'm a bit sleepy lol.

 

Who knows, Nintendo also tried to shot down rumors that turned out to be true, such as the Nintendo NX back then. We'll see tomorrow how it ends.