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WindyCityHeat on 06 January 2013
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runqvist said:
WindyCityHeat said:
It's not gameover, but nintendo is in a bad place. The nintendo brand at this point is associated with Toys-R-Us more than it is with actual gaming. Hardcore fans left years ago for Playstation/Xbox, casual gamers don't seem to be very interested at this point, gaming websites use "nintendo" as a punchline for their jokes, and Sony and MS are just better suited to compete in the ever changing industry, post smartphone revolution.

I think after this upcoming next-gen, probably towards the end of the next-gen, developers will be very "eager" to jump ship and drop support for nintendo completely IF the sales are struggling against PS4/720. It's getting to the point of no return, you can almost see a nintendo future where the console is only purchased for one or two nintendo exclusives and nothing else. (That's somewhat the case as of now)

Nintendo's strategy has crippled them as a competitor. Remember how nintendo years ago began saying nonsense like "We dont compete directly, we do our own thing." That would be Nintendo's reality now, don't expect anything else. If you think ANY nintendo exclusive is going to save the wiiu....get real. (It's the Marketplace that's changed)


I don't know about first paragraph, since I am not american.

For second paragraph, I agree. When best selling third party game which also happen to be heavily bundled does only 330k within holiday period, there will be little incentive to develop those exclusives for Wii U. When it comes to multiplats, all you need is to compare CoD on PS3/360 to Wii U. Wii U version has sold 150k, which is literally nothing compared to other versions. Not encouraging at all.

If the gap on power is high enough, Wii U will be skipped just like Wii was when PS4/nextbox come.

 

First paragraph is true btw, you should see the toy-r-us adds talking about stuffed hippos, fischer price toy phones and nintendo wii.

Thank you for quoting the COD numbers. It all comes down to a few basics facts when you look at the numbers. MADDEN and Call of Duty are the largest multiplat franchises on the market, GTAV not even being available on wiiu. These multiplats sell millions upon millions on PS3/360, and now manage to sell 150k on wiiu? That's it, they're done...they're just done. You can't succeed without 3rd party willingness to support your consoles.

Nintendo is not delusional, they may not understand the business anymore, but they are not delusional. They know mario and zelda won't do anything if they can't sell a game like COD or MADDEN on their system. It's just the bitter reality of their situation. You can quote mario sales all you want, developers DONT CARE. They DON'T care. Change your perception of the situation and maybe get your "favorite" or "favourite" company to change the way they operate. Don't sit around and pretend everything is going well. It's not.