>>17574223>billions in losses>Smash Bros coming out this yearI don't think any of you understand the casual consumer market
Smash will at least double the total sales of the Wii U overnight.
No rational company would cause huge consumer insecurity with their products when it's just about to hit the biggest boom in the platform's lifetime.
Nobody on the internet knows how to business. Basically one guy decided to set off a rumor and it's exploded because nobody understands how causing consumer insecurity with suddenly making a new console can ONLY cause a loss in profit, which at this point Nintendo cannot afford. Throwing a new console out when initial sales are bad is what caused Sega to flop, and Nintendo knows that since that was the damn console war they won. They're not going to make the same mistake. They have a straight line to follow to sell another 6+ million units this year along with ~10 million copies of just 1 first party game, they're not going to go off of it.
Gaming journals just want something juicy to max ad revenue, and tying in new consoles + pokemon is just about as juicy as it gets for Console and handheld titles. This is nothing more than a media storm that will die the second Smash hits.
