The truth about Nintendo

[Michael-5]

MDMAlliance said:

Michael-5 said:

Well if you won't agree that the OP wrote a good article, will you at least agree that journalism in gaming is a complete joke? OP does have a bias towards Nintendo (e.g. the royalties during the NES era did partly save the game industry by cleaning out a lot of crap).

Personally I feel Nintendo fell because of Hiroshi Yamauchi's retirement. He designed the ultra successful DS, and play a role in Wii's design. Iwata said he would resign if WiiU sales didn't break 5 million for the 1st fiscal year, which they didn't. He's just not talented enough to run the company, and I feel WiiU was his attempt at replicating DS's design and sales. Everyone makes mistakes though (Gunpei Yokoi - creator of Metroid, retired after making the failure that is Virtual Boy). Hopefully Iwata will make the next Nintendo a proper console. If not, I fear for the company.

@Bold: I suppose.  I haven't read too many gaming journalists' articles, but I do know they aren't the best (sort of mediocre).

@Italics:  I'm not entirely sure about this whole process, and I would probably need to research it more but I personally didn't feel like the Wii U was replicating the DS's design, and I read that the Wii U was never meant to do Wii levels of sales (much less DS levels).  I think the Wii U was much more done because of the Tablet trend going on.  I personally like the gamepad, but it's probably due to my heavy preference for being unrestricted with my gaming locations (AKA why I really like handhelds).

Maybe, but somebody must have realized that a controller that big is just uncomfortable. :-/ I don't think enough R & D was done, Nintendo really just wanted a step up this gen.