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davidd_err18 on 10 April 2012
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sensebringer said:

1) I have the impression that the PS3 and the 360 are not doing wonderfully in the sales deparment right now. I think they are having decent sells.

2) Lets wait for the E3 to know who Nintendo is going after with the Wii U.  If they  learned something from the 3DS launch is that the only way for them to be succesful is to try to expand the DS and Wii market. Going after the "Harcore" crowd  would be a mistake.

3) $300 is just $50 more than the Wii launch price. If we use your logic then the PS3 should not have cost more than $200 at launch. Why buy the PS3 if the PS2 is a lot more cheaper and has big library of cheap and good games? to play new games maybe?

4) The power means next to nothing for a console to do well. If the power was that important the PS1, PS2, Wii and DS would have been last in their respective generations. If the power is was that important the PSV would be outselling the 3DS by a long margin. The games and an affordable price are the key to have a succesful console.

5) There is a problem with that logic. I am going to be able to play Mario Bros,3D Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Smash brothers, Mario Kart and all the Nintendo games on those systems? all those games that you listed I am sure they will be great games, but the power of Ninendo franchises can be denied.

6) The casual gamers did not left the Wii for facebook and to play on tablets. Nintendo stopped making the games that they wanted to play on the Wii. If Nintendo had launched New Super Mario Bros 2, Wii Sports 3, Donkey Kong Country return 2 a 2D New Legend of Zelda and a New Super Metroid the Wii would still be selling like hotcakes.

1. Well nintendo isnt doing that great either, Wii is basically dead now, and the 3DS is just barely meeting its expectations, but ont the software side things arent looking so great (comparing them with the DS software sales). Nintendos YOY sales are reall down and less than 360 or PS3. We have to consider that the 360 is 7 years old and its still doing great nowdays.

2.Nintendo themselves said they are trying to get the hardcore gamers back, that says that a lot of their development time is going to the making of their core franchises. Nintendo 3DS is a good example of this, they totally forgot about their Touchgenerations games and opted for more core games. The biggest problem with this aproach is that Touchgenerations games were really cheap and easy to develop and their sold a ton, now that that market is gone (iOS) they can only make more expensive core games. Nintendo Wii U being their first HD console its gonna be a problem for them, because they dont have a 100% HD development team, and they are going to take a while in mastering how to do this kinds of games.

3.Yes, but do you think Wii U is going to receive that much games at launch? or in its 1st year? 3rd party developers had a bad experience developing Wii games and we have the future consoles dev kits floating around (rumour), so why are they going to spend resources in releasing exclusives for this console, when they can just port EVERYTHING from 360 or PS3 for 1 or 2 years, an then start to release games for the consoles with more power.

4. I am happy with a Wii U with the power of the Zelda demo, but a lot of the potential launch buyers (core gamers) are not, nor the 3rd party developers or investors.

5. For 3D mario, Zelda HD, and Smash Brothers we are talking about a wait of 3 or 4 years (so... 2015-2014... even 2016), some people will prefer to wait a little bit for buying this console.

6. Wii, for a lot of casual players was just the cool toy for the moment, and now thats either kinect or iPad, i just dont think nintendo can replicate that kind of succes.