| Rpruett said: Developers would have been more than happy to cater to the Wii in this instance. Nintendo will suffer with poor third party support for the remainder of this generation because of their unwillingness to put themselves out on a limb. Nintendo could have charged 400$ for a system essentially identical to the 360 in terms of power and graphics + motion controls might have dominated an entire industry to their product. Instead, they will only get a 'half' victory this generation. |
Actually, I would argue that Nintendo went out on more of a limb than any other system has ever done in the past, up to and including the DS. By largely foregoing the march of graphical progress in favour of focusing on developing a totally different control scheme, they basically went all or nothing on this generation, and they are being rewarded immensely for it.
As for producing an underpowered system, I think it was a well calculated strategy. In the event that the system declined into irrelevance, Nintendo always has the DS to continue making profit from. In the event they dominate, as they are now, third parties would be forced to either develop for them, or many would go out of business for want of marketshare. We've seen the beginnings of the latter scenario in Factor 5 and Free Radical, and combined with the recession, the balance of power in the console wars threatens to swing violently in Nintendo's direction, unless something is done to stop third parties from hemorrhaging cash.
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