| oniyide said: @bolded. thats what ive been saying. BUT IMHO that is the ONLY way they can win. There is only so much they can do. They can either take the bolded route which was WIi or they can go Sony MS route which has been proven time and time again they can NOT beat them at that game. The OP didnt ask how they can be competitive but how they can WIN, period. You have some solid ideas, but imo they are easier said than done and even then we still cant gaurantee that they would win. As for GC fair enough it would have done better with a different design, possibly, but again that doesn mean they would have won, they could have added an additional 10 mil sold and that still would have been nothing against PS2 |
Truth be told, when have they gone the Sony/MS route? When have they made a modern system, geared toward teens/young adults, with a sleek design, proper marketing, full 3rd party support and all that 3rd parties wanted in a system?
The answer is never, or possibly the NES SNES days. And of course in those days they had 60-90% market share. Since Sony entered the market, Nintendo has consistently done things to alienate 3rd parties. N64 had no CD, GC had a weird design and no DVD, Wii lacked HD, and now Wii U is again weaker and a different architecture than the competitors.
People love Nintendo 1st party. It's a big reason Wii sold so well. Part of it was motion controls, part of it was grandmas, but a big part was lapsed Nintendo fans who bought a PS1&2 and wouldn't touch a purple GC - those people lapped up the system and 30 million NSMB and MK's.
I honestly think that if Wii U was more stylish, more powerful and had games like the Division and Destiny coming to it - and promoted for it, it would potentially be the market leader. There really would be little reason to buy other systems if 3rd party was equal. 1st party sales are insignificant on XBox and PS relative to Nintendo.
