| kowenicki said: There is no magic wand. The die is cast on home consoles. Its a straight race for the PS4 and ONE. Not sure there is anyway to change that now? Handhelds... well, my view on dedicated handhelds is well documented. Its all downhill now... rapidly. |
Given the current momentum, and if they can keep it, yes, PS4 and XBOne have good chances, but 7th gen showed us that even the 3rd can thrive, if it has dedication and talent, and Ninty has both, just a little faded, it needs more self-confidence to restore them to their full potential.
About Iwata, if he understood his mistakes (admitting it was his fault), then he has more skills than many others to straighten things up: Nintendo should have fired whoever decided to start killing Wii one year before Wii U launch, tarnishing a brand name that it wished to reuse and possibly further boost too, but it should have been done as soon as that crazy suicide strategy was decided and before it could actually be implemented. Also Ninty should have pilloried and publicly spanked Reggie when he enjoyed trolling American gamers denying them ports that the rest of the world had obtained (unless he is just a puppet, in that case that treatment should be reserved to whoever decided that silly strategy hiding behind Reggie's big chubby face).
About portable consoles, if smartphone and tablet gaming grows enough, chances are that the number of those like me that tried it and quickly became utterly pissed off by it and dropped it (*), but are willing to eventually resume portable gaming on dedicated platforms, become large enough to allow portable console market to grow, despite becoming relatively smaller than the new casual gaming on other devices.
(*) in my case due to the pesky business model of some low-cost or free to play games (particularly EA), the lack of dedicated gaming controls (affecting most games) and realizing that also due to poor controls some games relied more on inducing and exploiting obsessive-compulsive and collector behaviour than on gameplay (some games, Drag Racing in my case).
