| Killiana1a said:
This being said, I honestly believe Nintendo will not see hardware numbers in the next generation equivalent to the Wii's numbers. Reasons? Move offers consumers who want Blu Ray for the movie theatre at home experience with a better alternative in more accurate user controls for their and their children's gaming needs. Furthermore, Microsoft with Kinect is taking gaming to a whole 'nother level in controller-less gaming. Microsoft doing Kinect first, attributes the creation of controller-less gaming to Microsoft and if Nintendo responds then they will be ripped for copying from Microsoft. I just don't see how Nintendo replicates the success of the Wii and DS especially if the 3DS is going down the road of N64 as Malstrom is saying. All that is left for Nintendo is to focus on putting out the best quality software and retaining their blue ocean market. Nintendo is more than capable of both. |
I believe this as well, but for the whole different reason, and there's nothing Nintendo can do, nor anyone else. I mean severe drop in demand.
2D Mario and new expanded audience game reveal at E3 2011 and release Q4 2011 - Q1 2012 would fix this problem nicely and support hardware sales momentum. They won't sell the system on 3D alone for prolonged time period the same way they didn't sell DS on touch screen alone, but Mario, Brain Training and Nintendogs did the trick leaving PSP behind. At least I hope people at Nintendo are not out of their minds not to release new 2D Mario game.
