GameSpot: Nintendo's Plan to Quietly Kill the Wii U

[Rogerioandrade]

Ucell said:

Rogerioandrade said:
Tsc Tsc.... this is tottally nonsense. Nintendo knows very well, as everyone should know by now, that the videogame console business is shrinking and will dissapear in some years, they´re just trying to find new business models to work on, like they have been doing for more than 100 years. Still, they won´t ignore the game market with their huge IPs and will continue to support consoles as long as there´s an audience for them

Gamespot must be really in desperate need of clicks - this is what every videogame website do when they´re losing attention and audience: publish a controversial article about Nintendo problems - as if Sony (Vita, anyone?) and MS (XboxOne sales) were not facing problems too in their videogame divisions and as if many studios and developers were not closing doors in the last 3 years.

Besides, no one still knows what exactely what the "Quality of Life" business model means, so anything said and written about that is just mere guessing speculation.

Just because Wii U ain't selling well doesn't mean that consoles are dying. Look at PS4 sales, its breaking records. The console market won't disappear in some years. Its just your wish that it did cause your favourite console maker is incompetent.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan

Man, the overall consoles sales have been down year--to-year for  seven years in a row right now, and there´s no sight that this tendency will stop soon. The numbers speak for themselves. 

The new generation is failing in bringing new consumers to the market. Not even the PS4 is succeding in doing  this. There´s a whole new generation of gamers growing up with tablet, smartphone and PC gaming and ignoring consoles. Those are the devices that are actually making with games what consoles couldn´t: bring them mainstream, accessible and interesting to all audiences. Consoles are becoming niche again but with a much smaller audience than last generation, an audience unable to keep the market afloating as it is.

I hope that the console market may find a point of stability in the future, but that only will happen if companies change, once and for all, this stupid AAA paradigm.