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Killiana1a on 08 October 2010
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mai said:
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.

I agree, a new Mario game has almost always been a panacea for lagging hardware sales. Well...with the exception of Super Mario Sunshine.

Then again, I have never like the concept of a silver bullet and putting all your eggs in one basket. If the mindset at Nintendo is to release a Mario game every other year, then it is the symptom of far deeper structural problems than we know about.

Mario should not be seen as a savior, Mario should be seen along with Zelda and others as a formidable lineup who will clear the floor everytime they enter the battlefield. I would include Metroid in the same lines, but I cannot as Other M is looking to trend lower than the worst selling Metroid game of all time, Super Metroid (1.42 million).

I am looking at you Donkey Kong...Yes you, do you still have the banana power to run with Mario? I hope so, but we will see these holidays.