MDMAlliance said:
Honestly I'm not sure what the bold means. Nintendo does do marketing but I do agree that their marketing efforts are weak in comparison to Sony and Microsoft. I don't think we know much at all with what Nintendo is doing with/to their 3rd parties, or that their competition really gives that much of what their 3rd parties want. Also, giving too much power to 3rd parties would make it that you no longer are in control of your own console, and I am pretty sure Nintendo doesn't want to give up all the control they have. I do think, though, that they should reach out more to 3rd parties for exclusives (multiplats too, but it's not as important considering the power difference between the PS4/XB1 and Wii U, most will go for the other consoles). The italics part, I think it's more post-launch than the launch itself. Wii U launched well with a good lineup available at launch, they just didn't follow through. |
I was talking about Nintendo making their system incredibly less powerful than the Ps4 and Xbone, that developers dont even want to bother with the Wii U especially when it wont bring them a huge profit. Nintendo has done it in the past with the Wii which was hardly more powerful than the original Xbox, and the 3ds which is around 50% more powerful than the PsP. And just because those systems are really successful, i have no idea why Nintendo decided to test their luck with 3rd parties again when the stakes are so high.
The Wii U's launch was not as good as it could have been, Rayman and Pikmin 3 were delayed for almost a year.
