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Gamerace on 05 April 2013
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RolStoppable said:
JGarret said:
RolStoppable said:

Forget about time. It would always be the wrong Nintendo system in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Let's not forget that Nintendo only got into trouble, because they abandoned their previous and successful philosophy. They aren't failing, because doing the same thing suddenly stopped to work. A solution for how they can get back on track in the next generation isn't hard to figure out. Software sells hardware, plus commitment. Wii and DS worked, they can work again. Since attempts to get third parties on board mostly failed, the more viable option is to increase Nintendo's own development studios to create a steady flow of good software. Virtual Console needs to be leveraged to a much, much, much better degree.

Are they really doing that?...we´ve known for several years that´s what they have to in order to make up for the lack of 3rd parties, but it seems there´s an apparent lack of desire to do it.

If they won´t do what you suggested, or do it at a snail´s pace (once every 5/6 years), then the hybrid system would be the best thing they have against the droughts they´ve been having since the N64.Long gone are the times where games were much simpler and they could focus on two platforms at once (if they ever could, that is, I´m guessing here)...but now, even 3DS games are far more complex and time consuming to develop than DS and Gameboy games ever were, so I think with their current size, it´s either 3DS or Wii U, not both at once (I suspect one of the reasons for the drought we´re once again seeing with the Wii U, is they were forced to shift a lot of resources to the 3DS).

By having a single platform, they could minimize the droughts far better than partnerships like Fire Emblem X SMT/Bayonetta 2...but yes, their best option is to increase their studios...when was the last time they really did that?..was it with Monolith back in 2006?

No, they aren't doing that. Nintendo pretty much bought into the conventional wisdom of the industry: Their hardware sells because of gimmicks, there's a hardcore vs. casual context, a console absolutely needs third party support in order to succeed. So Nintendo creates the 3DS and Wii U, two systems that convey the message that hardware sells hardware (3D on the 3DS, no intent to show software for the Wii U). Both systems are also about creating an environment where third party software sells. Hence why the 3DS launch window lacked big first party games. Hence why the Wii U was designed to appease third parties, not to continue what has been started with the Wii.

The conventional wisdom is that the biggest enemy of third party software sales on Nintendo platforms is first party software. Since Iwata saw it as his duty to improve relationships with third parties, it wasn't an option to increase Nintendo's own development studios.

The conventional wisdom is wrong though. The biggest enemy of third party software sales on Nintendo platforms are third party games that suck. The DS and Wii didn't need third party software to take off. That happened on the back of first party software, so why would more first party software be a bad thing for consumers? It really isn't. It's going to be infuriating to third parties though. But who cares?

Third party software isn't going to come to Nintendo home consoles, so either Nintendo ceases to make home consoles or they need to become big enough to sustain the platform entirely on their own by releasing about 25 retail games per year. A hybrid system is more likely to destroy Nintendo's handheld market as well, rather than help out Nintendo's home console market.


I agree, Nintendo's best bet for the future is to not try to applease these 3rd party console developers (who are driving full tilt into a brick wall of their own demise) and make a single game playing device that is ideal for the games they make and somehow different enough from Android/Apple (& PS4/720) offers to justify owning a seperate gaming device but close enough that mobile/indie games could be ported over and enhanced by Nintendo's console.   Focus all their gaming studios on that one device and it's guaranteed to sell.   

I think the big budget AAA games of PS4/720 are going to become increasingly like dinosaurs in an age of smaller much more nimble studios/games that will steal the majority of the market as the AAA games try to retain it through brute force.  Those AAA dinosaurs will be killing one another fighting over an ever shrinking piece of pie until only a small handful are left (this is happening now, today - look at THQ).    Nintendo doesn't need the Call of Dutys or Assassin's Creeds.  They need the independants of today who will be the new giants of tomorrow.