Malstrom: Why Project Cafe will fail

[SaviorX]

noname2200 said:

SaviorX said:

There is no guarantee to say that they will. I'm not a fan of Sony as a company, but I give them all the credit in the world for fighting tooth and nail to restore the PS3 back to some decency, and now it is leading in sales in the console market. The Xbox360 is older than the Wii but still manage to take a large chunk of its market with Kinect so simply.

Note: Why does Malstrom criticize 3D Zeldas when OOT was the best-selling one? Final Fantasy 7 had the benefit of an easy and quick introduction that nabbed it almost 10 million in sales, but that game was overall LONG and slightly difficult, so why did that sell? A large and unspoken part of Nintendo's failure after Super Nintendo was the complete lack of Squaresoft support.

We differ in terms of the PS3, and how it got out of its tailspin (I don't give Sony much of the credit, myself), but you're right that there are no guarantees. As for your note, he's actually addressed that specific point a couple of times. If I wasn't at work I'd link you to it, but a quick search of his site will bring up the answer pretty quickly.

If the PS3 or the 360 for that matter had to survive based on the 3rd party support the Wii currently gets, they would have been dead, period. Sony was so close to complete decline, but multiplatform titles kept the PSTriple afloat until Sony could adopt some type of new strategy, culminated by the Slim model, PS Move, and Japan's complete Wii abandonment.

I don't feel like cycling through his website either lol. I agree with his overall premise that Nintendo needs to cover the bases (Adventure, Sports, Introductory, etc) with all their consoles. It provides an easy example of how the previous ones failed, and how the Wii lost a large segment without many adventure games.