| TheLastStarFighter said: There is no question Nintendo needs to return to profitability, but you don't shed 2/3s of your business - your primary business - to do so. You find out what is wrong and you fix it. In the case of Nintendo, they launched a console that hasn't done well during its first year+. They need to find a way to make it do well or design a new piece of hardware that can do better. If I were running the company, I'd do both. I'd spend reserve cash to buy up a couple publishers to bring in more exclusive software to move Wii U's, and I'd design new hardware that can compete both within the industry and against other entertainment platforms. A powerful new gaming system that is third party friendly, an andoid tablet with exclusive Nintendo style and software and an android Nintendo phone with controls to play games. I'd outsouce much of the chip design, but deveop a common OS and online network between the 3 devices and start a subscription service to play updated versions of classic games. Some games could be played on the phone, some require the tablet and full on AAA titles would be only on the new home console. A dedicated home gaming network among the devices could make for great multiplayer matches, but I digress and daydream... |
We can agree to disagree on the direction Nintendo needs to take. If they are going to remain in the hardware buisiness then their hardware NEEDS to have wide spread support from the industry. The idea of a "Mario box" isn't going to fly with as many people as it did in the past. I've made this comparrison before, but I think it's worth saying again how Nintendo having a system that is only worth while to play their own games is kind of like if Disney only released their movies on HDdvd & forced people to buy an HDdvd player for the privaledge of watching their movies, and their movies only.
