Nem said:
RolStoppable said:
Aielyn said:
The point isn't so much about what is happening right now, but what happens once the other platforms are released. Wii wasn't the first one out of the gate, so it wasn't in the same position as the Wii U in that regard (and that's probably the biggest failure in his effort to equate the two systems - he describes the Wii as having come out "close to the start of the generation").
And his greater argument isn't that the Wii U will be a phenomenon like the Wii, but that there's more to the strategy than meets the eye. It's less about the results and more about the intent.
As for THQ, the point is that it'll serve as a case study for the other publishers. Development costs spiraling out of control, greater focus on "online passes", etc, and the fact that they didn't really put much support on the Wii (they did publish de Blob, but other than that, the only notable releases were the niche Deadly Creatures and their WWE series).
And if you pay attention, EdgyDude doesn't so much predict that third parties will all move to the Wii U, but that those that don't are going to fail anyway.
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By the point third parties might realize that they need to sell more games, the Wii U will most likely be dead in the water already due to a lack of third party support. This will not result in any sort of measures that benefit Nintendo, but rather efforts to milk the consumers on Sony and Microsoft consoles even more.
The intent behind the Wii U was to get third party support. It's not coming and it's not going to come, so the strategy has failed.
The final point, the inevitable failure for many third parties, is about the only good thing that is coming from Nintendo's self-destruction in the eighth generation.
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remind me how things were for the 3ds 3 months after launch and how they are now. Short memory huh?!
Predict to me this: what will happen if nintendo releases a 3d mario and mario kart 8 with say a 70 euro/dollar price cut this christmas? take into account that zelda ww remake will already be out.
Yeah... maybe you are proclaiming failure a bit too early eh? i remember the claims that the vita was going to destroy the 3ds and how doomed it was.
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wow, so much this. Strong truth. Lots of people fall guilty to jump the doom gun. When those first party games get released you can expect the wii u install base to sky rocket. I don't own a wii u right now as none of the games intrest me (waiting for pikmin 3), so that timeframe inbetween the big games the wii U will roll down the track slowly but when that train picks up speed it it will be boomin (not as fast as the wii but still good).
to say that nintendo has no stradegy and the wii u has already failed not evan when its been out less then 6 months its silly. As for 3rd party support on wii u, i am not sure the wii didnt have much 3rd party support but it still won last gen with new business tactics and great 1st party games.
