in the coming years what do you think nintendo should spend their wads of wii/ds cash on?
i'm gonna guess that no company ever has made the kind of profit from video games in a given amount of time like they are now. they have the two fastest selling systems ever, they are making plenty of profit off each sale, and have many multi-million selling games out for those two systems (mostly for ds but in the coming years wii will get plenty too). anyway, so what should nintendo spend their vast riches on?
putting money into the online service maybe, trying to make an actual community like xbox live. i haven't yet seen anything good come out of the wiiconnect24 thing, maybe they can start actually sending us cool free stuff thats worth having through that service. maybe adding demos of games, cheap headsets (maybe free headsets with every smash bros. purchase, thats me hoping with the delay they add in voice chat by then). or give us deals on VC downloads like once you reach a certain number downloaded you get a free download. that would encourage people to buy more VC games so could actually make nintendo more money, win-win. maybe bringing out a really affordable hard drive which would also encourage more downloads so win-win again. or maybe pump a ton of money into game development in order to come up with new IPs. or somehow spend a bunch of money to not only bring in 3rd parties but convince them that they need to actually make full, deep, quality games for wii instead of just mostly ports and low budget, bad graphics, sloppy controlled side projects or mini games. i dunno, but they gotta be doing something. with all that dough they're pulling in they should be able to do some really big things for the wii to really bury the 360 and ps3 (although ps3 is pretty much buried already). or maybe they should just spend ridiculous amounts of money on R&D making an ultra mega cool next gen system that'll combine the best parts of all systems plus innovate in more new ways. what do you kids think?
end of '08 predictions: wii - 43 million, 360 - 25 million, ps3 - 20 million
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