Playing At Strengths: A Strategy for Nintendo for Generation 9

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CarcharodonKraz said:

Soundwave said:

CarcharodonKraz said:

 

Once upon a time the DS was a "third pillar". It's Nintendo's most successful hardware platform ever.

I think there would be a fair amount of interest in a console that you can pick up and take on the road with you or move into another room without any fuss.

The concept of a game concept being a big fat box that sits glued underneath one TV in your house works for some people, but others may be fine with just "decent visual fidelity" but a much more lifestyle centric product.

Also I think long term the strategy of playing "catch up" to Sony/MS doesn't work for Nintendo. You can't keep coming out 5-6 years later with a console moderately better than what Sony/MS have already had on the market for years and years and try to bank on a controller being enough to convince people they need this system. It only works if you have a revolution like the Wiimote was, and I think Nintendo's learned the hard way now it's not easy to replicate that.

They either have to match Sony/MS (which they won't IMO) or go in an even more different route and differniate themselves moreso.

you and i definitely view the DS differently.  I view it as the next step in the gameboy family tree. The virtual boy; that was a 3rd pillar.  As was the 64dd.

There's actually no reason nintendo can't play "catch up", but i'm also not going to say that that should be their direction. 

Again i'm not dicounting your idea, but i think it would have to be presented with a completely different approach.  Also, you may be losing the majority of "some people" who like the system "glued under one tv".  And "some people"  may actually be alot bigger than you expect. 

that being said, i do think it'd be really cool if hdmi ports were on the front of tvs and the front of consoles so that you could take a small console, such as the wii-u, and switch which room it is in with little fuss.

Nintendo specifically called DS "3rd pillar" thats how the term was started