IGN: "Has Nintendo Cooked the Golden Goose?"

[Gamerace]

Mr Khan said:

Gamerace said:

The article is flawed and the gaming media is all to eager to ring the death bells for Nintendo but it does have a point.

Nintendo allows games to be in development until they feel they have them just right but often times that leaves an uneven release schdule. If they want to continue to have that flexiblity they really need to invest some of those billions in buying up or creating studios so they have a continuous stream of content. These large periods without major software are deadly.
Just look at Japan.

It annoys me even more that NoA could have released FF4 and D:DoC to fill some of the gaps but didn't bother.

If Nintendo wants to keep the Wii selling to the masses it HAS to maintain it's mind share in the masses and Nintendo has not be doing anything to do that for far too long. E3 had better be huge in the mainstream press (the gaming press won't matter) or Wii will be forgotten about and sales will drop.

Clearly neither of those games would have helped at all, though. Disaster scored a floptacular and Fatal Frame has really never been that big in America...

 

I wasn't suggesting they would have been big sellers but they would have at least helped allow them to maintain a one game every 5 weeks schedule (and make me happy - and what's more important than that?)