Playing At Strengths: A Strategy for Nintendo for Generation 9

[DevilRising]

I keep hearing this notion, but I'm sorry, to me, it is incredibly unappealing.

I have owned a classic Game Boy, and a DS Lite. I should have owned a GBA but never bought one. I'll eventually get a 3DS at some point. But I've never been as into portable gaming as I have been into home gaming. The same as how while I have liked many (mostly older, classic) PC games, I have always been more of a "sit back on your couch and enjoy" kind of gamer than I have a "chill in your computer chair and play" gamer. I've always been a home console kid, ever since the 2600.

I would not want to see Nintendo abandon the home console market, and I really don't think I would want to see this "home console/portable hybrid" idea either. On the one hand, you could "stream it to TVs" or whatever...but honestly, I'd rather just have an honest to God home console. The sheer volume of articles and forum threads that have popped over in 2013 about Nintendo and how they're doomed and what they need to do to change, or what they need to do "when they go third party", etc....to me, is rather absurd.

The FACT is, the only reason Wii U has been struggling, is the simplest and most blatantly obvious answer there is: It has barely had any games for ALL of 2013 so far". It's that simple. It's going to change change soon, and hopefully there'll be a steady enough stream of software from August onward, for the next several years. But really, THAT has been IT, as far as "The problem with Wii U" is concerned. A console needs games to play on it, and outside of what initially looked like a robust launch lineup, it's been pretty dry. Lego City is a great game, and I hear that the ports of Monster Hunter Tri and Need For Speed are really excellent too. But Rayman got pushed back, and Game & Wario, Pikmin, Wonderful 101, Wii Fit U, all games that were supposed to be "First Half of 2013" games, also all got pushed back. It was just poor development planning. They spent too much time and focus on the 3DS, not enough on the NEW console they had coming out. It's really that simple.

Give the system GAMES that people actually want to play on it, and it'll level off and do fine.