RolStoppable said:
I haven't been in the best condition in the last few days, so it hasn't dawned on me before today: All you guys who disagree with me share the belief that the Nintendo hardcore console comes down to flawed execution. I mean, just look at your latest reply to me. "...taking the next logical step from their 64 iterations.", what good would that have done? The Nintendo 64 was a failure. History question: Do you know which of Nintendo's home consoles is the anomaly? It's the SNES. |
I think may be it's just more simple than that ... Nintendo's "vision" of what a home console should be ... something kid friendly and family fun oriented first and foremost is something that simply doesn't jive with the popular opinion of the marketplace, as much as Nintendo fanatics may make a huge fuss about it on the internet.
Sony's vision of the home console is actually more in line with what the masses and development community want and Nintendo really hasn't been able to ever have the same consistent success in the console biz ever since Sony entered the marketplace and made gaming "acceptable" and primarily marketed to older teenagers and college aged students mainly.
Kids don't even want a kids console, which is one huge problem, they want the more violent games by the time they turn 11/12 years old and want to play what the older kids are playing, which gives Nintendo an extremely small niche age range of 6-10 year olds to really target before they lose many of these kids to Sony/MS.
People don't want a toy when they're buying a console any more, and I think Nintendo never really has been able to cope with this. The Wii was just a temporary craze that's passed, and now the natural erosion of Nintendo's console market has continued like clockwork. The fact that Nintendo manages to make several self-inflicted mistakes each generation doesn't help though.
