Mazzy said:
Tlozjb said:
Step 1. Clearly reveal NX as what it is avoiding Wii U-like confusion
Step 2. Correctly advertized NX
Step 3. Release NX with Zelda, Pikmin 4(most surely), and FFXV(rumored, possible seeing how SE is eating up NX with DQ), and other games.
Step 4. Maintain a good stream of 1st party games, no more than a month between games, to attract 3rd parties that will help fill the schedule
Step 5. Profit
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They've done this every gen yet their console sales continue to shrink.
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NES - SNES transition: Super Mario World biggest name at launch, what coudl be consider a confusing name, failing Step 1 with the name and Step 3 with small launch.
SNES - N64 transition: The majority of the steps were fufilled, but it lost the big 3rd party franchises, causing the slump in sales, specially from Japan, where going by data from here it was a huge 12 million drop, accounting for the majority of the drop between SNES - N64, since the other 2 regions did not drop much looking at the enw fierce competition from PlayStation. This would be not fulfilling Step 4. Aside that its main attractor at launch was only Super Mario 64.
N64 - GC transition: They messed it up big time here. A kiddy look and and fully akward commercials destroying Step 2. The small discs that leaded to 3rd parties to go away even more, damaging Step 4. Step 3 and the quality of its launch titles is up to opinion.
GC - Wii transition: It was clear it was something new, fulfilling Step 1. It was greatly advertized wiwth the "Wii would like to play" slogan, fulfilling Step 2. Released with big names like Zelda, Call of Duty,, and Madden fulfilling Step 3. It continued to get a good stream of games after release and attracted 3rd parties fulfilling Step 4. Then as a extra it had a appealing.
Wii - Wii U transition: The complete opposite. Name to similar to the last and seemed like a add-on failing Step 1. Was badly advertized with the focus on the tablet and not the console failing Step 2. The biggest thing at launch was NSMBU faside of bad ports of AC and CoD failing Step 3. Huge droughts followed failing Step 4.
So no, Nintendo hasn't been fulfilling all of those steps with every console. With the handhelds maybe, but not the home consoles.