Where Does Nintendo Go If Wii U Never Takes Off?

[Screamapillar]

JEMC said:

Screamapillar said:

JEMC said:

Well, if WiiU doesn't perform as Nintendo wants, I think that Nintendo would wait the usual 5 years or so to launch a new console, otherwise it could be seen as a betrayal to their WiiU users like SEGA did with the early move from the Saturn to the Dreamcast.

Wasn't there a four year gap between Saturn and Dreamcast?  '95-'99 in America, I believe.  That's not too unusual.

Yes, there were 4 years between them, but the impression that the people got was that they did it too soon, and that they didn't even maximized what the Saturn could have done.

Right, Saturn just never got the necessary software support to keep it afloat.  Dearth of software is always what leads to the early death of a game platform.  They can say it was the specs being too difficult to program for, or the marketing being off, or the price, which could all be true, but at the end of the day it was that N64 and PSOne had lots of high-quality games that people wanted, and Saturn just didn't.