Conegamer said:
No. It went pro-Nintendo. Pro-innovation and awesome 1st party games. GC was against Nintendo, the Wii was against against Nintendo, so was Nintendo.
And it sold so well for it |
The Wii was the first Nintendo game system to go against what Nintendo had done since it's inception into the gaming market. The original NES was a basic system that touted simple controls and simple game mechanics to boot.
All other systems since then (SNES, Virtual Boy, N64, and Cube) have gotten rid of that (even the hand helds got more buttons). They got more complex. If we are looking at what Nintendo has mainly put out in the market then we would have to agree that the Wii and NES are not overall representative of their mission.
Hence the Wii was something new for Nintendo. There was no way of knowing if it was going to be financially viable because nothing like that had entered the market in forever, and everything else in the market like the PS2 was very financially viable. It doesn't have to be called luck because it wasn't a fluke coincidence that so many people flocked to style of the simple Wii. But it was not a standard move for them.
As a side note I can at least agree that it would be more surprising if the other two guys took the Wii route first.
