| MaxwellAllen said: If you disagree with 7 words out of my post, just follow it up with a simple reason as to why you think Nintendo will make any progress this generation or generate any meaningfull success, propelling themselves to market leader position. Don't waste time comparing PS3 or 720 or PS4 or gamecube or everything else you mentioned that doesn't actually pertain to what I said lol. Nintendo, so far, looks to be immitating gamecubes presence in the industry. Lackluster sales, poor marketing, and lack of market penetration. It's just not a good outlook for this generation, considering wiiu has only been out on the market for 4 months. Things don't look good. |
The bolded was simply my jumping off point for disagreeing with your entire statement. The rest was long-winded sure, but I did address your entire post. I brought up the 720/PS4 because YOU brought them up. You said that when they release, it is "all over" like somehow those are going to sell insane amounts at launch. Profit margins, talk of "progress" (which is extremely vague), Nintendo competing in the face of competition, remaning relevant, strategy from 10 years ago (Mid Gamecube life cycle, hence me bringing it up), all mentioned in your statement, all covered by mine. I even stayed on topic by talking about how the Wii and Wii U were viable strategies due to the tech arms race that is bleeding the industry dry. Reading's hard, huh?
The Gamecube was having those problems years into its life, not 4 months in. Give the Wii U time. If a console is doomed in it's first 4 months, the PS3 would have been an overall failure. Launches aligned, the Wii U sold more than the PS3 or the 360 in the same time frame following launch, so I guess both were failures, right? People said the exact same thing about the 3DS and now it is currently curb-stomping everything in Japan and is Nintendo's fastest selling piece of hardware ever. The Wii U will turn around, not to the extent of the 3DS because handhelds are a different beast, but it will improve nonetheless.
Nintendo doesn't have to be the market leader in order to make progress. They have made progress into HD, power consumption, tech other than clock speeds and flops, online to a massive extent, Indie development etc. They will most certainly make more of a profit than Sony/MS....8GB of GDDR5, 8 core processors and the Kinect/PSEye don't come cheap and that cost is eaten by the company and results in a less attractive price point for consumers.
