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Soundwave on 27 March 2014
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

There's always a degree of serendipity when anything is that successful. 

Michael Jackson's Thriller is a miracle. So is James Cameron's Titanic. So is TV's Seinfeld. 

Of course these things were deliberate in their design, but to the degree that they are embraced by the public requires a certain amount of timing and (sure) luck. 

Because otherwise you should be able to make a hit product everytime just by execution and that's not always the way things work.

Michael Jackson tried his damndest to top Thriller multiple times but never could do it, because it's not that f*cking easy, lol. I think that's one thing Nintendo fans don't get, you can't just pull a Wiimote type idea out of your ass every 5 years, that's not how basic creativity works. That's an idea that comes around maybe once every 20 years. 

Not even Apple is capable of doing that ... they had an incredible streak with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, but since then haven't been able to come up with a new idea as strong as that ... because it's *difficult* to do (you think they haven't invested billions in trying to find the next big thing?).

Like I said though, Wii was successful cos it was in touch with the market. Wii U is flopping because it's out of touch.

I'm not saying they could easily have had another Wii megahit, but they could easily have had a solid 50-60m selling system.


If they had some kind of unbelievable new controller idea sure. But the Wii U as is ... even if they marketed it perfectly and named perfectly it wouldn't sniff 50-60 million. 

The entire concept of the Wii brand is that it's about new controller interfaces that are so unique that people go crazy over them after playing for just a few minutes. 

When you don't have that, the whole deck of cards falls in on top of itself. The other brutal lesson Nintendo is learning here is how fickle the casual audience is. They are not loyal to anything but their own needs, say what you want about "manchildren" but they take their gaming seriously ... casuals are the equivalent of the flightly good looking blonde at a night club that has a different guy trying to entertain her every 10 minutes. She's not going to date you just because you made her laugh once and decided to dance with you for ten minutes.