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NoirSon on 29 March 2013
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JakDaSnack said:
NoirSon said:

If the Wii U continues at its current pace, it will be done in 3 years. Nintendo while rich, isn't going to leave a lame dog on the track while PS4 and the next MS console trample on it for that long. They would probably quit the home console market altogether before that and create a web based platform like Steam.

They probably could do it, but people seem to forget while the N64 and GC weren't the strongest sellers, they moved 3rd party software pretty well in some cases until the end. The Wii U isn't showing that same level of ability and is akin to the Wii's lackluster abilities outside of Skylanders and Just Dance. The Wii U even with some Nintendo blockbusters to propel it is likely to just be around 3 years before a successor is announced with a lame duck 4th year. But 5 is way too much time unless they do a massive restructuring of the company's hierarchy and need time for the new CEO/President/whatever to start their plans on saving the company.


You mean where the wiiU launches a couple mediocre new games(in terms of popularity) and the sales double?  At it's current pace, the wiiU will do just fine once the big games come out.

No, just no.

Or they could just continue to launch a lot of new games, and keep the wii U competitive for 5-6 years.  The wii was sold at a profit since day 1, the wiiU was sold at a loss, which is why they will need a couple extra years and also why they will continue to support it.

A system can't really last that long or be productive on just a handful of titles. And doubling up on extremely bad sales won't exactly make Nintendo competitive unless they pull a PSP in Japan and stumble upon a mega hit franchise in the making.

Sure Nintendo will have a few system sellers like Mario Kart, Smash Bros and Zelda just waiting for release but the same issues that plagued the latter half of the GC and Wii's life cycle in not getting adequate third party support will haunt them. Developers will head for the more powerful or bigger userbases of rivals and leave Nintendo's system with crumbs at best. The key thing to the early launch should have been to establish a beachhead but instead, it has backfired and Nintendo is scrambling while developers are giving up before even releasing the games. Nintendo gets more money via 3rd parties making successful games on their system, no one making successful games doesn't benefit Nintendo since it just makes their system a niche.