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Metallicube on 17 May 2013
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Soundwave said:
Otakumegane said:
North America sure is trained to love shooters nowadays. It wasn't this bad during the 5th-6th gen.

While the NA market is obviously the most important for consoles, I think that it's also looking to be the fastest shrinking one.

It has the most "alternatives" to gaming with new ones emerging.


Even though Nintendo loves to roll out the "we do the opposite of MS/Sony" line one has to wonder if it's a smart strategy to employ *all the time*.

The irony is the modern FPS shooter craze on consoles really started on a Nintendo console, as the N64 was really the first "shooter box" with GoldenEye and Perfect Dark and Turok and others.

I think they probably should've kept a presence in this market segment.

Nintendo gets itself in trouble precisely WHEN they try to be like Sony and MS (see N64, Gamecube). When they go opposite of them like they did with the Wii and DS, (and like NES was its own thing back in the day), that's when achieve massive success.

Maybe not so much with the shooters, but Wii U is Nintendo trying to be "hardcore," or at least having a hardcore console with the Wii wallpaper over it, but as always, it's not working, the same as always when Nintendo attempts to fight in the red ocean.

Nintendo can get America back if they want to, and I think they even know what they have to do in order to do it, they just refuse to do it. There is simply no way they are this naive. So I can't feel to bad for them. They are chosing this route. What they have to do is return to the Wii philosophy of going back to gaming's root of pure, simple gameplay, along with genre bending games that brought in new gamers.