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nitekrawler1285 on 05 May 2011
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padib said:
nitekrawler1285 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
nitekrawler1285 said:

Compared to what it was achieving the system is in vast decline. Hardware numbers aside the system has little to no software coming out. Even it if couldn't be considered dying at the moment the software issue will kill it in swift order. 


No, it has a poor listing of software for this quarter. No games have been listed for the rest of the year. So the software issue is part of the fallacy of assuming it doesn't exist unless someone says it's being released.

Quite a number of games on many systems have been unknown until E3 shows. That will show whether the software is there.

It's not my fault they don't tell people that games are coming out.  Who wants to buy a system that only has poor titles or none announced? If they choose to not try to excite and make consumers aware it's nobody's fault but they're own that this perception exists.

For the uninformed newscrawler, it is his/her fault, he/she should know better. So... to inform you I'm posting a quote from the latest Q&A Iwata had with investors, which explains precisely why Nintendo has been keeping quiet on release dates lately. It is purely a Nintendo thing and applies only to them at the moment as it is part of a new Nintendo strategy (it was about time), where they bet seriously on the success of 3rd parties by taking considerable risks - at the expense of the short-term success of 1st party development - they are building a foundation. Things should change when that foundation is set. The quote:

"On the other hand, the reason why we have not yet set the launch dates is not only because of our development status, but to create an environment in which third-party titles will also sell well, which is the aim we set when we announced Nintendo 3DS. If we fail to create such an environment, we will not be able to maintain the momentum of the platform continuously. We don't believe Nintendo can do everything by itself. Of course, we are strongly aware of the fact that Nintendo's titles are obliged to drive the sales of the hardware, but we are not as arrogant as to think that Nintendo can maintain the market on its own. We want the other companies to be successful. In order to accomplish this goal, we would like to decide on the dates after we know the release plans of other companies' games so that we are able to consider how we can maximize the sales of our titles without affecting the sales of other companies in the short term."

So Iwata is an even larger fool than I thought he was and my point still stands.  Even big games on the PS360(GT, Halo, GeoW) are announced well ahead of time and I don't hear 3rd parties complaining. Further more I don't see much being made of this dry spell on the 3DS let alone the Wii despite it being wide open for 3rd parties.  Looks to me like they made a serious bet on the wrong horse.

This is going to set a foundation of that tiny percentage of gamers that purchase 56% of all the games thinking they have nothing in store for them and they lose even more marketshare and softwares sales.  If they really wanna please third parties they could release no software to compete with them.  With how much they seem to be pandering to them that doesn't seem impossible.  If they really wanna create more momentum they could create more studios or purchase more.  They made the Wii what is by themselves and for the most part the same with the DS.  You don't tell people games are coming and they think... gasp no games are coming.