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kirby007 on 16 January 2014
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ioi said:
padib said:

Awesome OP. The only challenge I have to this theory is the 3DS. It doesn't have the Wii Sports-like experiences, but with big gamer games like Pokemon, Mario and Monster Hunter, it is doing quite well and should catch up to the DS over time.

Well it is the same with the GB / DS line really. GBA sold 70m units, DS sold 140m - why? Nintendogs (25m), Brain Training (20m each) and massives successes for 3rd parties such as Ubisoft - the DS was seeing huge sales for titles like Cooking Mama, the Imagine series, Petz games and so on. This is where the smartphone / tablet argument holds since much of that crowd is now playing games like those on their iPhones for free and haven't felt the need to upgrade to a 3DS.

Nintendo's biggest mistake this gen is to think that some half-baked sequels to Nintendogs, Brain Training, Wii Sports and Wii Fit would sell hardware like they did last gen - unfortunately those boats have long gone. If they want to emulate the success they had with Wii and DS they need new mega-hits that that will be this gens version of those past successes rather than just making new versions and assuming that will be enough. Unlike Mario, Mario Kart and Zelda, titles like Wii Sports, Nintendogs and Brain Training were very much of their time and did so well because they were new and different.

I can see Nintendo focus solely on a Nintendo Tablet in the future with connectivity options with television ( so basicly removing wii u console but keeping the controller )



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