zorg1000 said:
I dont care what type of chipset it has, Wii U could be right in the middle of Wii and 360 in terms of power for all I care. Ur right that certain games did have major declines from N64 to GC, mostly sports/racing/shooters which the competition thrives at, Nintendo needs to experiment with these genres again and try to find an audience for them. Star Fox is a bad example tho, Adventures was a spinoff and Assault was mediocre and released late in its life, both still sold over 1 million each. There are also many series that sell rather consistantly on Nintendo consoles regardless of install base. Outside of the original and the first Prime, Metroid sells roughly 1.5 million, same with Kirby with a few exceptions. Zelda/Donkey Kong/Animal Crossing have never sold under 3 million, Mario Party/Paper Mario have never sold under 1 million. Mario platformers, Mario Kart, Smash Bros have never sold under 5 million. Just release affordable hardware sold at a profit with a steady stream of software and ur fine. |
If you don't care about the chipset, then just have Nintendo make games for the Wii U indefintely?
They could sell it for $199.99 if they ditch the tablet controller.
Metroid Prime sold the most on the GameCube, with the Wii, even with a larger userbase it sold less. DKC/Pikmin seem to be struggling on the Wii U. Star Fox used to be a 3-4 million seller. Personally I don't think a Metroid game would hit even 1 million copies on the Wii U, even if it was a good game. DKC is a terrific game with a far more marketable IP and its probably in for a rough ride getting to 1 million.
Basically you're saying Nintendo should just accept lower software sales on most of their IP for the sake of making hardware that maybe 15-20 million households are interested in buying.
And there's nothing wrong with that. However I think the in the long term, this is not really a formula that appeals much to Nintendo.
With the Wii they thought they had found the answer to their problem, but its virtually impossible to repeat something like that, it's just one of those wonderful gambles that sometimes pays off, like going to Vegas and coming home with a few thousand dollars richer ... it's nice, but you can't rely on that happening every time.