| ZenfoldorVGI said: Honestly, I love Nintendo and Nintendo games, and I love the idea and innovation of the Wii, but I dislike the console to a certain extent. It's graphics and 3rd party support suck. I'm ready for a new Nintendo home console. My prediction, 1 year at E32011, a new Xbox and a new Nintendo home console will be announced. |
I'll agree with that, but add that they'll be announced for that holiday. We'll see PlayStation 4 that e3 as well, or at least catch hints of it.
At the moment it does look like things are bad, given that all the buzz outside the handheld space is monopolized mostly by Kinect, and to a lesser extent by Move, and the snapshot of this week sees things at their worst for Nintendo, because you're seeing Sengoku Basara push in Japan (though it is concering because it was so big for PS3 but didn't really help Wii at all) combined with the 360 still riding on what it is. As i said before, it's easy to point to this and call doom, but also very hasty to.
Price cuts won't help. The Wii is driven by killer apps more than any console in a while. Killer apps is what it needs, but i would bank on Donkey Kong, NBA Jam (on the one console where it can actually sell hardware), maybe Epic Mickey, and the Vitality Sensor when it appears, to all help to some extent.
The last real killer app Wii had was NSMBWii, so they're slumping a good deal as space goes away from that, but this holiday season sees 3rd parties actually stepping up to bat for once in terms of something that might make someone actually want a Wii, so the outlook is mostly optimistic, though the bigger question is if Kinect and Move can really distract consumers
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
