Nintendo's biggest obstacle heading into next generation

[Scisca]

JayWood2010 said:

Scisca said:

snowdog said:

kowenicki said:
Longevity

I think Sony and Microsoft will have more of a problem with that unless they can come up with something in 2018/2019 to keep sales momentum going. Last gen it was motion controls. If they're going to release consoes expected to have a half-life of 7-10 years they're going to have to have something in 5 or 6 years to keep sales going. After all, the Wii U 2 should be released around that time leaving the PS4 and 720 with underpowered hardware.

PS3 has the best longevity this gen. Do you really think it's because of Move?

 

Wii U will be a Gamecube 2. Nobody will want to play inferior ports of multiplatform games, people will just plug it in and turn on once or twice a year to play a new Nintendo 1st party game. It will be too weak to compete for the core gamers and the casuals have already moved on to tablets.

The biggest problem though is that both X360 and PS3 gamers have their achievements/trophies and friend lists already there, they will be tranferable to the next console and this is a HUGE incentive for them to stay with the same manufacturer next gen. Nintendo has no online ecosystem and this will hurt them big time.

Sadly I think a lot of this is true.  Not saying the WiiU will do bad but you did make some good points is what Im saying.

Thank you. Nintendo will profit from Wii U, no doubt about it. Still, they probably have the most difficult situation out of the whole 3 companies. Sony is a close second.