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

It won't fix anything. They can have Zelda show her tits for ten minutes straight in the next Zelda game and that still won't fix Nintendo's issues because they are so deeply rooted. 

The console business has just changed and Nintendo hasn't changed with it, as such they aren't able to adapt to it. The had great success with one big gamble that really payed off in spades with motion control, but even there it was obvious they didn't really know what to do with it after a while as the PS3/360 sure enough started to outsell the Wii by time 2010 rolled around fairly consistently. 

Not the "Wii was a fluke" retcon, that's getting old.


You can label it however you want (fluke, miracle, genius stroke, etc. etc.), but the bottom line is Nintendo hasn't been able to repeat it, and have most likely lost all of that audience anyway to tablet/smartphone gaming (sorry, but denial doesn't change this). 

The fact is the Wii's success yesterday doesn't do sh*t for Nintendo today or tomorrow as far as their market outlook. 

It was genius. A fluke would have been if Iwata's alphabet soup had spelled "try motion controls".

Nintendo current failings are NOT the result of the Wii. They are the result of them stopping being genius in 2011.

Sure it's genius then. 

Means about as much today as the SNES being genius was when the N64 was getting bent over by the Playstation. 

It's actually a detriment I think that the Wii required "genius" to succeed, because really what that means is the bar has to be set so high to repeat (it has to be genius, your words, after all) it.

Whereas Sony's approach doesn't really require "genius", it just requires a lot of common sense and straight forward execution (like marketing for example). Much easier than sitting around waiting for another "genius" idea (or worse trying to force one). Genius just happens, you don't force it. 

Sony doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, they just go out and execute a hell of a lot better than everyone else most of the time. That's really why they've kicked Nintendo's rear end pretty good for what looks like 3 of 4 gens, and even with the Wii-PS3 gen, they may eventually catch the Wii's 100 million total.