| TheFallen said: The problem is you can't rely on the fickle mass market to purchase your console gen after gen. MS and Sony have showed they have a large core consumer base. Nintendo have yet to show this. Why woulda casual want wii fit HD when they have Wii fit already and especially when graphics aren't a priority to them? Wii Sports U? Wii Play u? Nintendo needs to start makeing some inroads in funding new, exciting first party exclusives, because their relying on their existing franchises since I played Snes is not going to expand their core consumer base. |
Yeah pretty much this, the casual/mass market is fickle as hell.
That's the name main problem.
Nintendo could call it Wii 2, Super Wii, Super Duper Wii, whatever, I don't think it'd make that big of a difference.
Wii = "Yesterday's news" in the minds of a lot of people.
Personally I think they should've just made a "New Nintendo Entertainment System" (or "New Nintendo Famicom" for Japan). Dumped the stupid 33 watt power consumption target, upspeced the chip to be easily more powerful than the 360, and sold it for $349/$400 at launch with a tablet controller. Then dropped the price to $299/$349 as the 720/PS4 launched.
The whole idea of making a system barely more powerful than the 7 year old 360 and selling it at $300+ was a stupid, stupid (read: stupid) idea destined to fail from the start.
