Smashchu2 said:
One of the problems with VGchartz is it's NeoGAF with sales data. The people who post here are your regular forum goer rather than people who study business or those who have experience. Needless to say, paid executives with experience and knowledge would tear though your advice. There is a good reason I said "Tell the exects what to do," rather than "What is your idea." Now you need to be smarter then them. Let's look at some things they might say You said nothing about customers. Customers are the reason we can make money. None of what you said takes what the customer thinks into consideration. Would current Wii owners want to buy Wii 2? Could those customers feel cheated because of the dismissal of Motion controls? How would we attract new customers? These are questions your solution does address. What a lot of people don't understand is what is at stake. There are millions of dollars on the line with these decisions. You say Nintendo is clueless. I disagree. They are still making profit, so they are doing something right. I'd say the people here are clueless. That is why Nintendo hasn't rushed to your door and hired you (Reggie has said Nintendo does view message boards out there). Now, what would I tell Nintendo. I would tell them to focus on making software that sells. People bought the Wii for motion control games. They have motion plus. Why not make a lot of motion plus games. Make a new Starfox game, or maybe Nazo no Murasame-jÅÂ, or use something like an archery game. People would love to have good motion games, something Nintendo has dropped a bit. I also would have told them to kill games like Galaxy 2 and Other M and redirect the software towards the expanded audience. I'd also say to invest in non-game, those that break the mold of what a game is. Art Acadamy, which didn't get a lot of attention, did very well in Europe and is even used in Museums. These games are always a good investment. Funny enough, this is likely the solution Nintendo is doing. |
Look, time will tell which one of us is right. I do sense some frustration in you though, probably trying to wrok at Nintendo but can't?? I mean what did that have to do with anything I said? Looks like your views aren't shared that much eaither. Nintendo focused during the last year on the total opposite type of games you want them to make. I'm sure Iwata isn't in a hurry to pick you up either. You are just talking like Malstrom, and that's terrible. you believe solutions are that easy, simply make software and sales will go up. Nintendo has had Motion Plus for 2 years and they haven't released a thing other than an Wii Sports expansion. Same with the Balance Board, they only released Wii Fit and an expansion. The point is that Nintendo thought 3rd party publishers were going to embrace such add ons, but in reality none is willing to do so. You believe that Nintendo doesn't care about third party sales (which bring a hell lot of money due to royalties), but Iwata is always talking about how he wants his company to be at better relations with them and how the 3DS is an improvement over this.
Tell me please, if you believe you are a very smart business/tech/economy expert capabale of working with the biggest companies in the world, why is Nintendo releasing the 3DS if sales were still much higher than the Wii's ones. Do you consider the NGP to be competition for the 3DS?
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