| Resident_Hazard said:
1. Nintendo was over-confident in how many 3rd party devs/publishers would step up and fill the void they left. In large part, it's because the Wii is still considered "underpowered," and in large part because Nintendo didn't do enough to encourage 3rd party companies to jump on-board. Nintendo should have catered more to their needs and needs to step up support for them, including broad advertising for the Wii that shows off a variety of available 1st, 2nd and 3rd party titles. Ok I am really tired of those arguments. It is a platform with low development costs, Nintendo is no longer restricting the content. It is powerful enough and it gives them more freedom to make the kind of games they want without spending too much money or learn time. What the hell do they want?! That Nintendo programs for them?! Neither Microsoft nor Sony does that why on earth will Nintendo should do it?! Are 3d parties so spoiled and blind that they need a bigger company to do THEIR JOB?! 2. Nintendo's faith in their own franchises was misguided. They felt that Animal Crossing, Wii Music, and Wario Land would be enough to satisfy gamers this holiday. Unfortunatly, Wii Music is overly shallow and Animal Crossing wasn't improved enough to appeal to core gamers. I think Nintendo also may have, more secretly, misjudged how long it would take for them to craft more 1st party, more highly polished core gamaes--games like Punch-Out, StarFox, Pikmin, and the like. Obviously, the next Mario and Zelda are still a long ways off, but Nintendo has other games up their sleeves that they're working on internally, and they just aren't ready yet. Nintendo decided to step aside and let the 2008 holiday season to the cry babies third parties. Is not their fault that they are not taking advantage. Also, Animal crossing was aimed to the people who didn't played it before which is part of this strategy. Wii music has receiving too much poison form media and gamers and YET the games is selling. And as I said just because Nintendo didn't released a new AAA game in a couple of months doesn't mean that they are doomed or that they betrayed the HARDKOREZ...which never even cared about Nintendo in the first place. They are the ones that betrayed Nintendo not the opòssite. Why should Nintendo try to please them when they know they won't even care? |
