archer9234 said:
Then Nintendo would never have an opening to "attack". If they keep playing it safe. Both ways are equally poor.
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If they keep it safe and do a cheap console, they can make good numbers and keep going.
If they make a 400 bucks console and the 3rd party option backfires, they will end up with another Wii U and now without a 3DS to back it up since it's a single platform. Selling just 15M consoles in a single gen (since it's a combined platform) would pretty much do a massive damage to Nintendo.
I don't see a lot of openings for attacks, really. When NX is out, publishers will have two other platforms, one around 50M and the other around 25M to support. NX will start from zero. 100% of the public for 3rd parties are on PS4 and X1. Because if someone did care about these games, they already left Nintendo years ago. So they can do another expensive console and end up with no games.
MarkkyStorm said:
I think that's a valid option. Not the only one, but maybe the safest one of the two ways I see for Nintendo:
1- A new SNES: say what you want, but most of true gamers dream about a console that sums Nintendo IPs and equal or more power than the competition. Not just for the power, but for what you can do with it. SNES had STRONG third party support and incredible first party games. If it's marketed in the right way, it could cust as much as the competition and still sell, at least, better than the X1. It would need strong third party support, a strong online network, variety of first party titles (not just Mario and Zelda, it would need good new IPs and new games from series like Metroid and F-Zero in the way that the fans want it, not Star Fox Zero way) and a tradicional controller. If it's made the right way, it would kick Microsoft out of the way and Nintendo would battle Sony head-to-head in a future next generation.
2- A new Wii: what makes Wii so brilliant was the sum of innovative ways to play, good price and exclusive games. You couldn't had the same experience in any other console in that generation (at least, before Kinect and PSMove) and that made the Wii steal the show. The trick part is: it has to be unique and cheap. The rumours point to that way. And it could work, with a good amount of great games and a price that convince X1 and PS4 owners to have a second console and, more than that, convince people that don't like games that much (casuals, for saying) that it a good valour for tons of fun. More than keep Nintendo alive, it could be responsible for keep the idea of dedicated devices for playing alive in this world of consoles that are becoming more and more like a PC.
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1 - Yes, SNES did had a strong 3rd party support. But times have moved on. I don't think a lot of gamers do want this nowadays. People that really cared about 3rd party games moved on. Actually, the big 3rd party games aren't even the same top ones on SNES. They seriously risk to just cather to people that already are on PS4 and X1. Even for people that aren't on these devices, it would make more sense to get one of them since they have years of games already out. Even power isn't an advantage anymore because we have more powerful versions of them.
I think that a 300+ dollar Nintendo console would be a Dreamcast-like disaster. A lost, in-between gens device that nobody really asked for. There's a bunch of nostalgia about the DC now but, at its time, it was just something nobody really wanted.
2 - I believe that's the approach. Cheaper, more accessible. Less gimmicky, but still trying for a casual appeal.
