happydolphin said:
The DS struggled to take off for its first year worldwide and was facing serious competition from the PSP. It's only once NSMB and the DS Lite came out that it exploded into sales success.
The Wii was initially considered doomed to fail because it didn't have the traditional controller, it had no 3rd party support and was the successor to the rejected gamecube. Let me assure you that both the Wii and DS had their share of doubters, just as the 3DS and now the WiiU do. Ultimately, people want a console for their families, and they choose Nintendo. Since the Wii and DS, that has become a certainty, due to the work Nintendo did to revamp their image in the eyes of the masses. That work hasn't faded yet. |
How do you know that nintendo understand where its success came from ? BTW the WII U is marketed to the hardcore so you can forget about it being a family console as evidenced by nintendo rereleasing wind waker hd on the wiiu. Nintendo knew that the mass market didn't want to be associated with the gamecube or gamecube games since they were mostly trash as evidenced by the mass market not buying them. Nintendo knew from the beginning but instead they keep flopping because they don't have the same views as the consumer.
