| Metallicube said: Malstrom said it best: "It’s time for Nintendo to return to the Wii / NES / Atari 2600 style of consoles and abandon the N64/ Gamecube / Wii U of consoles. The Wii and Wii U are like two polar opposites: Wii and Anti-Wii." Enough is enough, Nintendo. The hardcore gamer, niche-style Gamecube type stuff that the Wii U mainly consists of, is simply NOT going to work. It didn't work in 2001 when the economy was in much better shape, and it sure as hell won't work during a recession, when people are reluctant to spend money on video games. Nintendo HAS to smarten up and return to the roots that made NES and Wii such a success. (and again, Wii U is NOTHING like the Wii, at least in basic philosophy. It is far more similar to Gamecube). They MUST go back to making the arcade-type simply to pick up and play games that appeals to a mass market audience, non gamers, and lapsed gamers. To me and many others, this strategy seems obvious, but Nintendo just won't seem to budge from the failure of its new Wii U philosophies. If Nintendo is truly not sharp enough to figure out that this is the solution, or they KNOW what to do but are simply too stubborn to implement it (as I fear might be the case with them), then all I can say is that they deserve whatever fate awaits them. |
I don't think it's that simple.
Besides NSMBU, Mario 3D World, Wii Party U, Wii Fit U, LEGO City, Nintendo Land, NES Remix, Wii Sports Club, Sing Party, and even Pikmin 3 are relatively easy to pick up and play games. It's not like Nintendo is pushing a library of 10 Metroid Prime games.
The truth is I think smartphones/tablets have changed how consumers look at everything. They now get that simple NES-style game fix with games like Candy Crush and Angry Birds on smartphones.
So what the home console is actually has swung back in Sony/MS' favor ... to high end HD game consoles for big screen TVs ... that's why the PS4/XB1 are doing so well even with fairly mediocre software lineups.
But you can even see for Sony, Sony can't sell games like Tearaway and Puppeteer and LBP Karting any more ... cartoony games on consoles seem to be in very, very tough. Again to me it seems like consumers are getting their fill of that type game on their smartphone for free, home console has now become where they go to to play Call of Duty, Battlefield, Uncharted, Halo, etc. ... those type of big screen experiences.
