Smashchu2 on 29 May 2009
| Dodece said: I think the goal is a bit too lofty. What Nintendo has to do to accomplish this goal is make third party developers more successful on their platform. That means Nintendo will need to revamp its marketing. They will also need to provide financial incentive to third party titles to prove the concept. They will need to develop a core mature lineup. Right now I do not see Nintendo pushing the console as more then a family/casual console. Further more I do not see Nintendo offering to fund third party development, and I do not see Nintendo churning out new mature franchises. All of these would be counter to precedent and their corporate culture. Doing the things necessary wouldn't even be prohibitively expensive. Building at least a few mature franchises is something Nintendo absolutely needs to do regardless. They need to avoid getting relabeled the kiddie console. They need to maintain a core demographic regardless. They need to start developing procedures for procuring high end third party exclusives regardless. So it is not like it would be money that Nintendo would not have to spend. I am just not counting on Nintendo knowing it has to spend the money or for them to even see the need. |
Nintendo does not have to do any of that stuff. Third parties clamor that they can't sell on Nintendo's console rather than admit they make bad games or don't meet Wii values. Some games have been successful, but most third parties don't put the effort into the Wii. As a result, they don't sell well.
Wanna know what Nintendo should do? Sell more units and show third parties how the system is a better bet than the competition. It seems they are trying to do that, but the third parties are dead set on the HD twins.
