padib said:
As I said, Nintendo is not apple, they make dedicated game consoles. The DS is the result of usability tests they spent money designing. If they see use for it they will keep it, if not they will not. End of story. Bottom line, Nintendo imho will make their next platforms open to many options, much like the U is today. That is our pattern. |
LOL, they need to stay away from whatever the f*ck it is they're doing with the Wii U.
Here's a sobering fact for them -- more kids in the next three years, probably by a factor of 3-5x (and that might be generous to Nintendo) will be introduced and hooked on gaming through their parents iPad/Android tablet over a Nintendo 3DS or DS. And certainly not that gong show that's the Wii U.
Now Nintendo can either keep doing their own brand of "aren't we cute, we're Nintendo" schtick and become irrelevant or they can wake up and make a product that's relevant to people's lives in the year 2014 and beyond.
That may sound harsh, but really it's not even half as harsh as the market conditions out there. Don't come to a gun fight with a butter knife Nintendo. To be fair to them, I think this last holiday season was a hard, sobering wake up call to them and in a way the whole QoL thing is an admission on their part that they can't sell that product on their home consoles anymore, they need to create a new product line divorced from their half-poisoned existing hardware philosophy to even have a chance.
