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Soundwave on 17 May 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

With respect to your second point there (from the bottom), I do think if Nintendo had offered a fairly modern chip (lets say 1.2 TFLOP GPU) and really leveraged that full year headstart, they really could've pushed Sony out of the market in a lot of ways. Sony is in massive debt and having to start say 10 million units behind Nintendo with Nintendo also having a pricing advantage would probably be the death knell for Sony.

Microsoft is Microsoft, they'll always have money to burn, so you kinda just tolerate that, but I think Nintendo probably could've carved out a strong no.2 spot for themselves at a minimum this generation, but they just couldn't resist following the Wii formula once again, even though all the tea leaves were telling them that blue ocean audience has moved on.

What exactly should the console have been like? Comparable processing power and RAM to other eighth generation consoles doesn't need explanation, but what kind of controller would be standard and how much would it cost at retail? Still though, if Sony got all the same third party games, I don't think Nintendo could have pushed Sony out of the market. That's because with all things being equal, people will choose the brand they trust. Hence why Microsoft couldn't beat Sony in Japan and Europe, despite having a few advantages.

Nintendo didn't follow the Wii formula, that's the entire problem. There are virtually no important similarities between the Wii and Wii U.


I genuinely do think the Wii U tablet is a neat device, but all things considered, I think it simply was the wrong idea at the wrong time and is too cost prohibitive of a controller with a whole bunch of issues (ie: having 2 per console is going to be a rarity).

I think a compartively specced Nintendo platform with a full year headstart and the Wiimote + Pro controller as the main controllers would beat Sony.

It would be like the PS2/GCN all over again, only difference being the PS2 would belong to Nintendo this time and Sony would be in the role of the GameCube.