Nintendo: We have failed to establish Wii U as a “worthy” Wii successor

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prayformojo said:

famousringo said:

KingdomHeartsFan said:

I wonder if they'll give up this need to revolutionalize next gen and just make a regular console because they are tramatized by the Wii U, considering it doesn't really pick up speed.  

Yeah, why not try the Gamecube strategy again?

That would only perpetuate the death spiral.

GameCube failed because of what he's saying. Where was the DVD player? Where was the full size medium (DVD DL disc) that third parties wanted? Where was the online play? Where was the second analog stick that all big third party games demanded? The console was also a tiny purple cube while the other two looked like a DVD player or DVR sitting under your tv. 

Nintendo needs to stop trying to be different when it comes to controllers and hardware and instead, use their SOFTWARE to innovate and be different. The last time they did that, it was the SNES days and how did that work out for them? Yes, believe it or not, there WAS a time when they release the most powerful hardware, with a normal controller, and won.

SNES being more powerful is debatable. It displayed more colours, but the Genesis actually had the more powerful CPU. Start adding in Sega CD and the 32X expansions and the SNES certainly wasn't the most powerful of its generation, even if we kindly ignore the Neo Geo.

Also, I think it's a little odd to call the SNES controller a "normal" controller, given that the D-pad was only a generation old and the SNES controller featured twice as many buttons as previous generation and contemporary rival controllers. It certainly wasn't a standard compared to four generations of controllers with dual thumbsticks, a D-pad and four face buttons.

And finally, although the SNES beat out rival game consoles of the same generation, it failed to exceed the success of the NES in both absolute units sold and in marketshare. Hardly signs of a successful strategy. More the signs of a mediocre strategy executed from a position of dominance. Now you want Nintendo to do that again from a position of weakness?