| mrstickball said: @Khuutra - That is true, but they are heavily correlated. Problems in one area can cascade into others. It doesn't entirely imply a direct causitive relationship, but they do influence them. Since they influence them, it may become problematic for Nintendo. It may not be in 2012. It may not even be in 2013. But if Nintendo doesn't play this generation very intelligently, they may see a huge dropoff in hardware sales when compared to the beast that was the Wii. |
You can say "This is primarily based on my gut," here.
I will respect that, and it doesn't leave much else to argue about.
I will say, though, that Gamecube didn't rely primarily on Nintendo's first-party software, at least relative to other platforms. It had multiplatform parity throughout the first three years of its life cycle.
The Wii relied on Nintendo's first-party efforts to a much, much greater degree, and only faltered when Nintendo's support did.
I think that makes the argument well enough on its own.
