@ConanTheStoner said:
So yeah, even more than I thought... that's crazy.
Gamers tend to be very short sighted though. If Nintendo were to listen to the average idiot beating the doom drum, the SNES would have never released outside of Japan and that would have been their final console. It's not just Nintendo though, I remember all the idiots calling for Sony to go 3rd party early on with the PS3 and look how that turned out.
Moral of the story? People can be stupid.
Pretty much. Gamers have short sightedness and shorter memories. Four years ago, the Xbox 360 was the gamers' console, the PS3 was a console suffering from its company's arrogance, and Nintendo was on the top of the world and secure with the Wii. Today, the situation is reversed for each of the three.
This industry changes every five years. Nintendo is in it for the long haul. One failed console won't change a thing.
@StrongDeadlift said:
Anybody who thinks Nintendo should go third party is an idiot. That would be literally the WORST thing they could do. Thats what killed Sega. ReviewTechUSA made a very good video about why it is a terrible idea.
All of that being said, the Wii U is a failure in every reguard, and there is NOTHING Nintendo can say or do about it to change that at this point. But, will it "kill" Nintendo? No, it will not. If they DID go third party, THAT would, however, kill them.
The ONLY thing Nintendo can do is grin and bear it for the next 5 years, whilst continuing to support the platform. They'll get'em next time.
This, basically, word for word. The Wii U is an unmitigated failure, this is fact, and almost nothing will change that. But does that mean that the company is doomed, on a path to third party? Absolutely not, it would make no financial sense for them whatsoever, and those who do not understand that have no understanding of basic economics.
@Crossel777 said:
Alternatively.. they could just keep releasing consoles.. That fail... dying... slowly... bleeding sales.
Sure, that's not stupid at all.
Yes, because that happens so often with Nintendo.
Oh no, wait. No it doesn't. The Wii U is the first console where this happened. Oh well.
@bforrester420 said:
Until Nintendo produces a standard, vanilla console (none of this dual screen or motion-centric gaming), I'm staying away from them like a plague. Being a nostalgic Nintendo gamer, I haven't missed their games. The Wii was the first Nintendo console I owned since the N64 and I hated the Wii.
My hope is that after the failure of the Wii U, Nintendo will ditch the 'underpowered console' route, and revert to producing a console that is at least on par with the competition with their Wii U successor. We'll see.
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