Did Nintendo miss a huge opportunity with the year headstart they have on MS / Sony?

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BaldrSkies said:

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BaldrSkies said:
I think the Wii U proved more than anything else that Mario alone is not enough to move consoles, and that Nintendo management really has no idea what they are doing anymore.

Pretty much. They looked at the bad 3DS launch and came to the conclusion that no Mario was the problem and figured that was all they needed to do.

They're just not a very nuanced management group.

Not only Mario, but the launch date as well. Moving the launch from Spring 2013 to Winter 2012 to squeeze out holiday sales. It is quite obvious from the poor launch firmware(+massive required launch update), poor network launch readiness, and poor first (and third) party game support, that the Wii U was launched early as a late management decision. Look at the game lineup and virtually everything is a rushed port, while Nintendo's offering is basically HD Mario DS and an offline minigame collection. All the big hitters don't have clear release dates and E3 is the big reveal for their main lineup. Spring 2013 just makes a whole lot more sense.

Nintendo is just that friend of yours who will always be late, no matter how far in advance you tell them to get ready. They will always be scrambling at the last minute and have some excuse as to why they're running behind. And then you get mad at them and they swear next time they'll be ready on time, and it never happens.

The Wii U/Cafe was announced/leaked *2 YEARS* ago almost now (March 2011 is when the first dev kits went out and details started to leak) and they still couldn't put together a good launch window, lol.