| johnlucas said:
The silly cat on Wii's News Channel. That entire madness from the WarioWare series. Link going fishing at a lake in the middle of a crucial world-dooming adventure in Ocarina of Time. The goofy Excitebike graphic that plays on Nintendo DSi Sound/3DS Sound. When you close the DS on Super Mario 64 DS & New Super Mario Bros. & you hear Mario say "Bye bye!" Hearing the cheesy but cool dialogue from Star Fox 64 after killing a boss then feeling that last minute RUMBLE with the explosion at the end of the line "I can't believe I lost to this SCUM!" "Sorry but I gotta jet!" *RUMBLE*. Playing with Mario's face on the title screen of Super Mario 64. Pressing the A & B buttons on the Wii Play title screen to make a fun little drum beat. Even downloading WiiWare games with Mario (small, Super or Fiery) OR Luigi showing progress by gathering coins & hitting [ ? ] Blocks. Downloading DSiWare games & seeing the gang from Super Mario Bros. 2 cooperate in loading the gaming bubbles in the present. Mario Paint for God's sake! THAT'S the Nintendo difference. The others see this videogame thing as a Technology industry while Nintendo sees this PROPERLY as an Entertainment industry. And remember what I said about Nintendo being a playing card company. Stop looking at the power thing for a second & see how much that second screen adds to the playing experience while building on what was already established with Wii. Raw hardware power is irrelevant. Nintendo excels in the places where tech is relevant. And many times the tech is already common just never used in a certain way. Microphones & touchscreens were old hat in 2004. It will be enough & you will see that soon. John Lucas |
Nintendo has missed the mark before. The N64 and Gamecube both ended up losing in the market, despite Nintendo having said "magic" that you claim. And having less horsepower is NOT a plus. Having enough, and the right price point can be though. The XBox ONE, for example, is more expensive and less powerful than the PS4.
But there is a question with the Wii U whether or not it has enough horsepower, or the second screen is enough of a differentiator. As it is now, the second screen isn't appealing enough to people, not is it for me. Heck, I tried and tried and tried the second screen a number of times in demo units in stores, and see almost NO compelling reason to get a Wii U. It just doesn't do anything for me. I thought it might, but it just didn't. The Wii was a different animal, and looked like fun to me actually, as it did a lot of other people, the Wii U doesn't. Heck, even the said 3D differentiator of the 3DS isn't really that much interest to other people at all. The 3D ended up a gimmick. The price point is why the 3DS sells, and it doing some nice other incremental updates. The Vita blows it on price actually. And the Wii U, if it was that desirable, the MAIN feature of the second screen, it would be selling well now, and it is not. It is struggling, along with the Vita. And, the second screen better be a selling feature. It is the main differentiator Nintendo has, and it has to work, the way motion control did.
The horsepower comes in, in regards to getting the next generation content. if Bethesda doesn't feel the Wii U is worth the time, you don't get it. You don't get EA other. Ubisoft isn't doing any next gen stuff on the Wii U. The Wii U is a late to the market current gen system, with a second screen. It has 4 times less RAM than its competitors, and other inferior spects. It follows the same path the ONE gets bashed for with its memory, and has less.
The thing you have BIG issues with, and your argument regarding power not mattering is that it can also mean THIS generation consoles get additional life to them.
And on the horsepower front, Android is coming on, at a lower price point. And that is where the casuals went, onto portable devices, playing games as secondary features of their other devices.
I would have to say here also, you are missing the big picture. The entire videogame industry could crash, pulling a version of the 1980s. You could end up having the Wii U selling more, BUT the market shrinks. Companies all bleed ink and and least one company leaves. Nintendo hangs on, grabbing a larger piece of a marketspace that is getting smaller. Congrats, you win, but it doesn't matter. The future of gaming goes Android, and you are doomed personally. Guess what, that is more likely to happen than Nintendo dominating at home again.
