Mmmfishtacos said:
You didn't fix anything, and don't do that again. People are too quick to throw Sony out when they not only won the last two gens but dominated like no other console could. I've given many reasons why i think they Wii U won't be as successful as the Wii. You haven't giving one why Sony can't come back. Who's the target market for the Wii U? It's not the same market they went after for the Wii. It's going to be too expensive. There's not much of an upgrade to haul gamers away from their PS3 or xbox360. It's the same games, they are looking worse with an incompetent online. Very little of the PS3/360 user base are going to jump over for ports and give up on their friends list, gamer score, and trophies and superior online systems. They wii u should have been launched in the place of the wii, it's this gen releasing 6 years too late. The only thing that's going to make the Wii u take off is a 200-250 dollar launch price and Mario. It isn't going to be 3rd party ports, while they have Mario they won't have a 200-250 launch price.
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You don't seem to have a good perspective of Sony's situation. Sony's financial situation is terrible. They've shown and inability to learn from their mistakes. Their strategy for success during the 5th and 6th console generation was due in large part to being able to leverage their larger financial coffers, Nintendo and Sega were smaller companies, to secure exclusive content. This also allowed them use a loss lead strategy on hardware. Microsoft has adopted this strategy unlike Sony, they still have the ability to employ it. Sony's market cap is lower than Nintendo's right now. Given the size difference in the two companies, that should give you inclination of how bad things are for Sony. The best thing Sony could do would be to adopt similar strategy to Nintendo. Sell hardware for a profit and leverage their first party software to ensure they'll profit no matter what their marketshare is.
Side note: You sound a lot like Nintendo fans during the N64 era. That era of gamer grew up with Nintendo being number 1 and they also couldn't fathom the company faltering. If Iwata hadn't place Yamauchi, Nintendo probably still would be struggling. I'm not sure if Kaz will be able to turn things around. Iwata was an outsider. He brought new perspective to Nintendo. Kaz is an insider and he's been dealt a terrible hand by his two predecessors.
