DevilRising on 08 April 2014
| Salnax said: Honestly, Nintendo is not going to get third party support on par with the competition regardless of when they release their next system. Instead of pouring money into the R&D for making a new console, they would be better off giving the Wii U a standard 5+ year life and investing in acquiring/founding studios and infrastructure so they can have a lot of actually dependable software support. Besides, let's say the Wii 3 were released Holiday 2015. What would sell it? I suppose they can have another 2D Mario by then, but a true next 3D Mario won't be ready until 2016, Mario Kart and Smash Bros won't have successors for ages, especially since the Mario Kart team will likely need to have MK9 for the 3DS's successor by its launch in, say, late 2017. Super Smash Bros can be rushed more, but it would involve Nintendo essentially annexing Bandai Namco's fighting team for almost permanent use, considering that was the only way SSB4 is gettting done in about two years. Then you have Zelda, which I guess can skip the Wii U like Metroid did the N64, Retro's next game, which will come out Holiday 2016 earliest, and... I'm not thinking of much else. My point is, the Wii 3 in 2016 and 2017 would suffer from similar problems as the Wii U in 2012 and 2013. It would have too small an installbase to get all the third party games, and the more powerful system will only stretch Nintendo resources further. The problem is Nintendo's ability to support their consoles, not 3rd parties. |
Or doing what Sony/MS do, and moneyhatting more third party exclusives.
