padib said:
I'm not sure how exactly he's a fool, and no your point doesn't stand. Take your finger away from the trigger, you're way to quick to pull. Even, I'm sure you thought he was a fool when the Wii was first announced, and sales-wise you were dead wrong. I sure hope you'll face the music again in the future. If you don't, I'll be very dissapointed as I for one hope Nintendo succeeds. Why wouldn't I? they bring a wealth of creativity and innovation to the industry (you can thank them for the Kinect and for the Move buddy, as well as many other in-game innovations that took place over the history of videogame making). As I said, they're working on a temporary strategy, and it's a Nintendo-specific strategy, specific to this point in time in their business path, so it can't be compared to the way other console makers work (they're not in the same situation). If it doesn't work, it doesn't make anyone a fool, for one thing it makes Iwata a businessman, and businessmen take risks. Some succeed, some don't. If you don't understand their radical move, you're not in tune with Nintendo's long-term situation. Overall, if the regular consumer doesn't understand the release date issue, I can understand. But if an informed gamer like you still can't come to understand, there's nothing to be done. We read articles, we post some quotes, we back it with reasoning. If there's no resounding, what more can one do? |
I do understand. i just think he is a fool. If I didn't understand I would say as much.
I didn't think he was a fool when the Wii or DS were announced as I saw potential in the control schemes. I do think he was a fool for never having them capitalize on that interesting control scheme outside of WS/R, Wii Play. Just like I think Sony are MS are fools for not having capitalized on it with their copycat systems. Hell they could've made great games out of the minigames found in those titles alone which would have been cheap and easy to develop as they already had the foundation and yet they did nothing.
I do understand their long term situation. 3rd parties don't like them. They haven't since the SNES days. N64 got shit for support. Even though it was more powerful and in many ways superior to the PS2 the same happened with the GC. Now we are on a three peat with the Wii. I do think it's foolish of them to ignore what has worked for them recently to allow those who have mocked them and barely even given token support for a decade and a half the opportunity to shine.
I think Project Cafe is even more foolish. Why make a system to get 3rd party multiplats when they will be on consoles that are cheaper than your new one? What is the incentive for customers? I guess it's the same way that 3D and lower battery life along with software that costs more than the PS360 versions is supposed to be incentive for the 3DS.
They could just be making and announcing new good games that consumers want to play. That would be an excellent strategy for a videogame company. Which is why my point still stands.
