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Soundwave on 20 November 2013
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superchunk said:
Soundwave said:
superchunk said:
They won't.

Rol and I went around on this for quite a while in another. Nintendo won't put out a successor until 2017... 2016 at the earliest, but that is really stretching it.

Furthermore it will be more similar to Wii U in terms of power being above PS4 but not cutting edge of that time.


Nintendo may as not even bother if that's going to be their philosophy. No one is going to buy a PS4-four-years-late console.

It's one of the main things that's killing the Wii U ... who the hell wants another PS3/360 level system? Nobody except a small niche of Nintendo fans that have been waiting 6 years to play 7-8 different franchises in 720p. 

100m+ people wanted to play SD games on Wii.

I'm pretty sure that if/when Nintendo builds the games, they will come.


Sure, now all you have to do is create a mind blowing, industry shaking control mechanism that is so spectacular that it has people opening their wallets the moment they see it being used. 

Nintendo fans are still in denial about this thinking it was the Wii overall library or something -- the 360 library sh*ts all over the Wii library in overall quality. It was never the overall breadth of the Wii library that drove its system sales, the system's library quite honestly aside from about 7-8 great efforts from Nintendo (SMG, SMG2, Zelda: SS, Zelda: TP, Metroid Prime 3, DKCR, Mario Kart Wii) is fairly mediocre in quality, especially all the third party garbage on it. 

The Wii sold on Wii Sports/Fit crazes and the controller, and that is a formula that is almost impossible to replicate -- as Nintendo is finding out for themselves with the bomb called the Wii U. Strip away the controller and rely on only Nintendo franchises to sell a system and you're back to GameCube territory (actually sub-GameCube territory if we want to be accurate here) in the blink of an eye.