amp316 said:
Unfortunately I think that this is exactly how Nintendo looks at things. They seem to concentrate on going after either the casual or the core and never both at the same time. It's unfortunate since I think that if they try to go after JUST the core gamer like they did with the Gamecube that we know how that will probably wind up. By the time that they do try to get the "expanded market" back, they will have gone on to something else. Thankfully I am not a Nintendo stockholder. If I were, I'd be worried about now. |
Seems to me with Wii U they are trying to go after both. Wii U is hardly a "strictly core gamer only" console. If Nintendo was interested in that, it wouldn't be called Wii period and Iwata still reiterated in the same financial report that they are developing something they hope to be the equivlanet of Wii Sports for the machine. Not to mention it's getting a New Super Mario Bros. game. And who are we kidding it's going to have games like Just Dance and a new Wii Fit at some point too.
Nintendo just is just going to make sure they have enough core content upfront though.
Just for the record too ... I think the GameCube probably would've done pretty well had it come out a year ahead of the other two consoles and Nintendo didn't make the blunder of making the primary console color purple (way too Fisher Price). They also totally mismanaged Mario and Zelda that generation ... SMS was not the Mario game people wanted, cell-shaded Link really wasn't what the mass market wanted either.
I think they should've seen the end of the N64 era coming a little sooner and moved Perfect Dark (this barely ran on the N64 anyway) + Conker's BFD + Zelda: Majora's Mask to the GameCube and launched in 2000, rather than waiting for 2001 to roll around.
