''You've obviously never own a Nintendo console to be making such a comment.''
I have, I bought a Wii, had it for a for a few years and sold it, it took a lot of dust all those years, I thought they were gonna get some new franchises and third party support, but I shouldn't have bought it in the first place, because there wasn't really anything to play, so I sold it and kept playing on the 360. I know a lot of people who sold their Wii.
''Games like Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros, Legend of Zelda and Mario are the reason to own a WiiU''
Or they are a reason to buy a preowned Gamecube or install an emulator. I've never played all those games and all their sequels, so I see no reason.unless I'm a diehard fan. Three consoles running 80% of the same games not being good for anyone as a consumer has no bearing at all on the companies business-wise. The simple fact of the matter is that if you’re faced with companies like Sony and Microsoft having 15 blockbusters every year that people really want to play, next to Nintendo having 5 console-exclusive games people want to play, people are going to get one of the two systems that have more of the games they want to play.
Their competition are always ready to throw dollars around to get the software people want and in Microsoft's case spend millions of dollars to get the software people want, are Nintendo willing to do that? Are they just gonna say ''we have money in the bank''? Because quite frankly nobody gives a shit how much money they have, their competitors are giant worldwide multi billion dollar coporations, they have money too and are gonna do what it takes to stay ahead of the game, leaving NIntendo behind. People aren’t going to buy a system that has less of what they want unless they’re diehard fans of those specific games, and in many cases they’d have to be such huge fans that the idea of paying $300 just to play that one game with a big maybe for anything else they’d want to play in the future would be acceptable to them. Nintendo is on the path to irrelevance as a console maker. Unless they stop pretending that gimmicks and a low price will make up for not having the games people want to play, they’re going to become Sega. I am entirely serious when I say that I can see them reduced to a third party video game and peripheral maker for Sony, Microsoft and whoever replaces Nintendo by the next generation if Nintendo doesn’t get their act together. They’d still be in the handheld market, I'd guess, but not consoles.
