| Mr Khan said: Replacing Wii U early would be the end of Nintendo in the home console market. Nobody really remembers what killed Sega, do they? |
apt as always.
i'm not sure what nintendo ought to do in the home console biz. i don't think nintendo can recreat the sucess that was the wii and their home consoles will continue to be a financial burden. i also don't think nintendo can do well as a third party studio(s) for MSony because they rely heavily on reinventing their franchises on new hardware. ...maybe sony/ms would consider a partnership that allowed nintendo intimate access to their hardware to allow nintendo to create well integrated gaming periphrial that they could sell/make games for. politically,.. probably not.
but cutting the wiiiU off early can really only hurt nintendo.
edit: oh and,.. even if nintendo wanted to put out new hardware next year it would be basically impossible. you can't just engineer new hardware design, figure out how to manufacture it, get 3rd parties preped for it's arrival with stable APIs, and all the other logistics in a year. there is a reason each of the big 3 start designing their next gen hardware almost immedialy after launching the current gen hardware. 3 years minimum prep time,. and that would be crazy fast turn around.
