Nintendo Comments Sales: Wut???

[trestres]

Khuutra said:

trestres said:

So you believe that Nintendo has the magic wand and can pump out those "killer apps" at will whenever they need to? Why haven't they done so? You speak as if it was that easy. It's out of their control. They tried the 2D side scroller formula and the Wii Series formula and none worked. They were lucky that Ubisoft found an untapped market and their game became the best selling new IP of the year. Nintendo did try last year. They had Metroid Other M, Galaxy 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns (I guess you dismiss this one as well), Kirby's epic Yarn (and this one too), Wii Party (and also this one), Super Mario Collection, Pikachu's Adventure and now this year Mario Sports Mix, Zelda SS and Kirby. Yet sales keep on plunging.

It's out of their control to know which game is going to become the next big thing. Wii Music failed for instance. Wii Party is just another party game. What you are basically saying is that Nintendo needs to make only 2D Mario games and new peripherals (which won't be supported later) to ignite sales... Please try to reason what you are saying, you are just making yourself look bad.

I think the discussion has taken the wrong direction, here.

I think - this is me being honest - that Nintendo has reached a point where continued sales of the Wii are only important to Nintendo as a way to perpetuate the brand. Nintendo's initially conservative approach to the Wii means it's done everything they ever hoped for about four times over.

I think Nintendo is probably focusing the largest brunt of their creative focus in other areas, now. Yes, we've still got some bitching HAL games coming and I expect the Zelda team is as serious about Skyward Sword as they have ever been about a game, but the biggest part of Nintendo's internal development studios are unquestionably looking at the 3DS and possibly whatever console ends up being the Wii's successor.

I agree with your reasoning. I think that Nintendo is already making SW for their new home console and researching the market to be able to penetrate it as fast and fiercely as they can with it, so preparing their new console must be their most important goal right now.

Wii is IMO already past its prime and Nintendo might want to get a head start next gen meanwhile Sony and MS keep on selling their curent gen systems. Nintendo has achieved, like you said, much more than they had ever hoped for, although it could have been way better with serious 3rd party support and less 1st party droughts. Either ways Nintendo is the most successful out of the 3 this gen and they will undoubtedly try to remain N° 1 next gen. Wii's on its last legs, there's no recovering from the decline, that's what I'm trying to get people to understand and they seem stubborn about it. Wii will not go up in yearly sales ever again, Nintendo is focusing on the 3DS and their next home console already, even if Iwata says so otherwise, we know that's what's going on.