padib said:
| Soundwave said:
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.
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I honestly don't get what this has to do with anything :P What I meant about the U is that it gives players options (play with mote, play on tv, play on screen, etc)
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Which is part of the problem. Keep it simple, don't needlessly give a consumer an overly complicated, or perhaps more specifically an overly convulted product.
The Wii U controller is basically the Homer Simpson car of game products -- and if you're too young to get that reference it's a joke about a monstrosity of a car that Homer created that basically had every option (and the kitchen sink) thrown into it.
