Wii U's Unnoticed Secret to Winning?

[wfz]

Kresnik said:

wfz said:

Sony apparently doesn't have a very open and supportive F2P system, as noted by the article I linked to in one of my previous points. Crytek is apparently not being supported to publish Warface on the system. http://www.freemmostation.com/news/crytek-conspiracy-microsoft-sony-and-nintendo-against-f2p/

Is your whole argument hinging on this article?  Because it says multiple times in it that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have been reluctant to embrace the F2P model, which was in June.  Your interview with Reggie seems to indicate Nintendo must have changed their mind about this, which is great.  Equally, Sony or Microsoft could have changed their minds too.  At least Sony have a fair few examples of embracing F2P under their belt.

Once we see some positive action from Nintendo towards F2P, then it'll be a different story.  Even in that interview with Reggie he seems to skirt around the issue, talking about 'all business models' rather than F2P specifically, and pointing out that there may be flaws in the model.  

I understand what you're getting at about this being a bigger play for Nintendo if they embrace it better, but right now there's just two conflicting viewpoints on whether they are in fact embracing it or not.  We'd need to see some action first, in my opinion :P

He is actually pointing out that there are flaws in the ways developers have been creating F2P games, not flaws in the F2P model itself. Unless he mentions it elsewhere and I didn't see.

You are right that the article states Nintendo as well as the other two. My idea is that if Nintendo has changed their philosophy and opens up Wii U as an open platform for F2P gaming, it could be a huge deal. But no one seems to be caring at all about this potential selling point, even Nintendo themselves. It's weird.

I would imagine that whoever really opens up to F2P gaming is really going to change the console market in a very disruptive way - I could be wrong, but who knows. To me, it seemed like Nintendo might be first to do that based on Reggie's interview. Hence, the thread.