spurgeonryan said: Industry analyst Michael Pachter is no stranger to statements that have received a bit of backlash on the internet from the gaming community. Still, he is respected by many in the industry itself as one of the go-to people for the state of the video games market. One of his latest statements was made in a Bonus Round centered on Nintendo’s upcoming system, the Wii U. While discussing Nintendo’s business habits and the upcoming Wii U along with other industry members, Pachter said that Nintendo, “Should not have made a new console on last generation technology.” He further added, that the Wii U’s gamepad and new control scheme is not intuitive or innovated enough to capture the masses like its predecessor the Wii did. To remedy Nintendo’s “predicament,” Pachter suggested that Nintendo should license its IPs to mobile game developers and put GameBoy and GameBoy Advance games on cell phones where it would reach hundreds of millions of people and possibly create a new target group to sell Nintendo hardware to. However, Pachter said that he thinks Nintendo is angry at the mobile market for what it is doing to their systems and too stubborn to go this route. To his credit though, Pachter did give positives saying that he believes the system will sell out this holiday season, albeit to hardcore Nintendo fans mainly. He also believes that by 2013, Nintendo will catch up with current systems such as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 where they will all launch games at the same time like Battlefield 4, the next Call of Duty, and Assassin’s Creed.
http://gamerxchange.net/2012/11/05/pachter-wii-u-a-new-console-using-last-gen-technology/ |
The one thing that he never mentions but should is that Nintendo has shorter lifecycles than Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo just needs this system to be viable for 5 or 6 years before their next gen system comes out. Their follow up to the Ps4 and 720 will come out 3 years before the end of their lifecylces and be more powerfull. Sony and Microsoft release future proof system. Systems which may only be 60% maxed out by the time Nintendo's generation is done. They also release system that are more expensive so people tend to hold off longer until buying those system. Nintendo likes to hit the market with now systems. System that are innovative and affordable right now. It's a different strategy and has worked well for Nintendo.
Furthermore it is Sony which has been heavily effected by mobile. The 3ds is still a very viable platform for Nintendo to release games into. So why would Nintendo be so upset and Sony who is being run out of business not?
