zorg1000 said:
Avro1958 said:
zorg1000 said:
what ur saying doesnt really make sense, why does Nintendo NEED to give Wii U a 6 year life? SNES/N64/GC all had 5 years. GBA only had 3.5 years and the successor went on to be the best selling handheld of all time. Xbox had 4 years and its successor went on to sell nearly 4x as much and gained a ton of marketshare.
Nintendo can easily get away with releasing a successor after only 4-5 years as long as Nintendo themselves releases a solid amount of there own ip.
|
They need to release at or near the same time as the rest... You release to early and run the risk of showing your cards to soon. Also, comparing handhelds to consoles is kind of moot...
The examples you are giving are very vague and had many other factors that came into play...
The 360 was rushed and could have used the extra year... MS got a year jump on Sony and Nintendo but it could have backfired and that year advantage helped but Sony caught up and Nintendo crushed them both.
How has the year jump helped Nintendo this time? It has not! They should have waited. Launched with a MUCH better line up. Nintendo is better off taking the extra time and putting it into the console and shoring up the launch offerings of the next console. Releasing a year ahead of everyone else is only going to blow up in there faces... and again Nintendo made truck loads of money on the Wii, they can afford to be patient. Besides just because the WiiU is not profitable now does not mean it will stay that way! They will start making money soon enough and the new 3DS will turn on the Nintendo money tap again.
The only people that want to new console so soon are graphic whores, Nintendo is not about that... never really have been! Nintendo does not need to pander to that bull shit.
|
releasing a year before PS4/One isnt what hurt Wii U, releasing a year early and not having any key software post launch with a high price tag for what it offers is what has hurt Wii U.
had Wii U released at $250 and had a steady stream of software then things might be different
and no its not just graphic whores who want Nintendo to release a new console earlier than 2018, i personally want Nintendo's next console to be only a slight bump over Wii U and be unified with the next handheld that way Nintendo can focus all their resources on a central platform which allows them to have a greater software output. this also gives the next console all the japanese 3rd party support the handhelds are use to recieving.
the best way for Nintendo to be successful in my opinion is to have low cost hardware with a high software output and to differentiate themselves as much from the competition as possible.
|
But that's kinda the point... they were not close to being ready! They also did not have 3rd party support and you would think it would have considering it came out a year earlier... It's all moot, Nintendo will not release a year before everyone... not now and not until they are ready.
