Arius Dion said:
The VB is the most glaring, obviously. But the N64 flopped everywhere but the US and the Gamecube was also a collosal failure WW. GC's failure birthed the Wii. Actually, Nintendo dumping Sony was a wise move. Sony didn't want to partner with Nintendo, they basically wanted to own Nintendo. All I'm saying is, this party time attitude inside Nintendo with execs and devs dressing like cats, remaking past failed games and devs having free reign to explore their inner picaso is over. Their financials since Wii U released have been in the toilet, changes are needed. And going further, if they think a 3D Mario, an upressed Wii Sports and another Wii Fit are going to change their fortunes, they will be mistaken. |
As I said, they kinda needed to get the VB out of the way. I doubt that Nintendo ever expected much from it. It's not like they didn't know that people thatused it got headaches instantly, not to mention the fact that it had pretty horrible software support, wass expencive and so on.
The N64 wasn't a big flop anywhere other than Japan, but it was a horrible flop there. The N64 actually only sold 2 millions less than the SNES in Europe. And they could fire Iwata at the time, he had just gotten in, and you can't flip things around that shortly. Basicly they haven't really had any opportunities to fire excecutives upto this point. I suppose they could have with the N64, but their president was after all Yamauchi.
I agree with the rest.