RolStoppable said:
The SNES actually belongs to the wrong direction, but it usually isn't perceived that way because it still came out on top during the fourth generation. I have little to no doubt that the 3DS will sell more than the NGP, but that, just like the SNES, doesn't signal that Nintendo was doing the right things. |
That the SNES was the wrong direction is a very shortsighted view, and it just shows how even fairly intelligent people like Malstrom, know so much less about this industry than Nintendo.
NES, 64 and Wii were innovators
SNES, GC and Wii2 are, by comparison, pretty minor upgrades.
The short sighted person looks at this and says that the NES outsold the SNES, N64 > GC, and the Wii > Wii2, and that it is of course a bad thing to sell less than ones predecessor. However, it is essential to the whole process to release them anyway. Most third parties still haven't worked out how to make a good motion controlled game, but fortunately next gen will kill off any that aren't able to work it out (Except for a few PCcentric devs like blizzard)
