Top Japanese producers comment on Wii U

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RolStoppable said:

padib said:

RolStoppable said:

You are young and naive.

You are probably also one of those who believe that disc space was one of the reasons why third parties dropped Gamecube support.

What's with the name-calling? I guess you're playing so I'll take it lightly :)

No, I'm not one of those who believed that disc space was one of the reasons why third parties dropped GC support. PS brand power caused 3rd parties to drop GC support, and it's the same that should happen on the reverse side, now with Nintendo's home console brand power rising from the dead (under Iwata's excellent leadership).

I was 3 years old when Final Fantasy released on the NES and grew up on that system. Can you really consider me that young? People think I'm naive until I have a chance to defend my points.

Anyway, why the heck would you assume I thought that? HD and Hard Disks, though having the same acronyms, have absolutely nothing else in common in terms of features for a console. For all I know I should consider you young and naive, because as far as I can remember we compared consoles by bits and graphics power back in the day. Now we call it a convenient excuse.

I've always been a positivist, but that doesn't make me naive. I have my reasons to believe Nintendo will prevail again this generation. It's a business thing, not a partisan thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eZJXeDXg1Y

But despite it being a joke, you aren't exactly helping your cause here. "PS brand power", pfff...

That sure doesn't explain why the Gamecube was dropped and the Xbox was not. As far as the industry is concerned, Nintendo has no brand power.

And no, I didn't think that you meant a hard disk drive when you said HD. The point I was making (or trying to make) is that you seem to eat up the excuses that third parties made up. The biggest flaw of the Wii was that it was successful and it needed to be destroyed to correct the world order. The Wii U can have all kinds of features, but it will never be able to overcome the fundamental issue: there is no place for Nintendo in the home console market.

Nintendo has two options:

1) Combat the industry.

or

2) Let the industry succeed.

The Wii was option 1 which is why it was so despised by the industry. The Wii U is option 2 and I am quite sure that the industry is laughing behind Nintendo's back already. As long as there are both Sony and Microsoft present in the home console market, Nintendo has only one company they can depend on: themselves. Should Nintendo fail Nintendo, then we are going to enter a dark age. Just look at the 3DS, third parties show no interest to pull that thing out of its slump. No matter what happens, there is no winning for Nintendo when it comes to third parties.

I don't want to enter the dark ages! :(

Is there anything we can do to help the situation?