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Soundwave on 01 April 2014
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curl-6 said:
Einsam_Delphin said:

Is that it? The only difference is the mildly higher price? That doesn't even prove that price cuts would make a difference now, unless you think they should have released the GCN at $300 just so they could do more price cuts lol.

$200-$300 is not a "mild" difference. It's critical; one's a casual price pont, the other is not.

Prior consoles also never had Wii U's lack of a killer app.


Kinda revisionist history here. I was around for the GameCube era, I recall a lot of "you can't judge the GameCube yet! Mario and Zelda haven't even be released yet!" going on for the first year or so before that dream died. The "it doesn't have its killer app yet" excuse has been done to death, the Wii U has a better library than either the PS4 or X1 ... there's just no interest in this product. 

Nintendo just doesn't have it anymore in the console business anyway. Fundamentally I think it's almost like they are incapable of making a console without making 3-4 critical mistakes in its design every time. 

They have nothing to be ashamed of ... being the console business for as long as they have would be like being in any other industry for like 50+ years. They've had a good run, I just think the console business has passed them by.