spurgeonryan said:
I agree! I do not know how they are going to do it, I just know that they need to or games like this will just be wasted opportunities for the Wii U to grow. Nintendo has its games, and as long as they can keep them fresh should be fine for years to come. But they need to get those 3rd parties to contribute or else. Microsoft has done what Nintendo should have done for years now. They have the "casual" market, and they have the "Core" market. That is the case for now, but even in these forums I see the occasional "Microsoft has gone soft, I am moving to Sony", comment. Does that mean the Kinect is taking too much of Microsofts time from them? Microsoft is king in America (and the U.K Seece), so that is always going to be a big plus for a company to have. I will say that if Nintendo was able to get people who never played a video game to play videogames with the Wii, they can also make this happen. Will they? I don't know, I am just saying what I think they "need" to do. Nice avatar by the way! |
thanks! i <3 emma
but to your points -- i don't disagree, just that all 3 need to do that. MS has gone a bit soft. they don't need to diversify so much as just generally expand. gears has been great to MS but it's not technically their property so they need to work on replacing that. as a first party you don't need to have an epic game every month -- just 2 or so (per audience) to cultivate the audience existing well enough for 3rd parties to also go after that audience.
nintendo's failing (to me) was they seemed to think that if they sold enough consoles via titles like wii sports/wiifit/mario kart that third parties would bring to nintedo titles like COD/ assissin's creed / dead space / GTA instead of carnival games / deca sports / just dance. third parties don't care to create an opportunity, just exploit the ones that are there. it's up to the platform owner to create those opportunities via their 1st parties games.