Forbes Blogger: It May Be Time For Nintendo To Make Games, Not Consoles

[Osc89]

softcoregamer82 said:

Osc89 said:

He was pretty hard on the Wii:

"But I think it’s become clear to most the Wii was a fluke, a fad, and I’m willing to call it a creative failure despite its sales numbers. It only created the illusion Nintendo had executed some grand master plan to win the decade, when really they just sort of stumbled into it."

I disagree with him.  I think the problem is that Nintendo stopped supporting it too soon.  What was their last year of solid support, 2009 or 2010?  They abandoned it for the Wii U, which was rushed and that was a big mistake.  Oh, and the Wii U had very few games at launch anyway.  Since they abandoned the Wii completely, shouldn't the Wii U have had great first party support right away?  It seems like they sat around and collected money for a few years, and now they are paying the price.

They must have seriously underestimated the difficulty of HD development. I can't see why else they have that gap in support as I doubt they just stopped what they were doing. It might also have been the 3DS problems that distracted them.