Zero999 on 02 August 2013
| Gamerace said: Absolutely not! And yes. I have never seen anyone f--- themselves harder than Nintendo - leaving their traditional (and ever shrinking) audience to embrace casuals wholeheartedly with Wii to ditching the casuals to embrace what's left of their greatly depleted traditional audience with WiiU. But keeping a name that's not reflective of this confusing everyone over who they are trying to appeal too. Plus of course, no games. Sony/MS simply will not have this problem. They are not in an identity crisis like Nintendo is. Sony foremost is aiming squarely at the core gamer and will have great success there. MS is casting a wider net and may ultimately win out due to this. But it's MS who are masters of wasted potential so we'll just have to wait and see how it turns out. On the flip side. Wii/DS brought in a huge amount of people to console gaming who are now mostly pre-occupied with mobile gaming. Mobile gaming as it develops and systems become more powerful and home systems like Ouya/Gamepop/Razor/Gamestick/Mojo etc., get established will progressively pull more and more people from the traditional console market away. PS4/XB1 also suffer from the smallest difference from one gen to the next. The games are prettier. So what. It will take more than that to entice a large portion of the gaming public to buy a new machine. Especially if their current one is still well support with games (especially the same games). Unless they really start to introduce gaming experiences that simply aren't possible with PS3/360 it'll be a slow transition (once the initial boom of avids have bought). In a declining market under attack from all new sources, that is not a good thing. So in short. PS4/Xb1 will not fall off a cliff like WiiU did and will sell much better than WiiU ever will. But WiiU was always destined to fail (I predicted it long before it launched) due to Nintendo's loss of direction. PS4/Xb1 know who their market is and will always appeal to them, even if it is a market in decline. They may not reach the heights of PS3/360 but they will still be successful in their own right. |
bolded: Yeah, I'm sure nintendo's audience hated those awesome games they received no the wii.
