Soundwave on 07 May 2014
| animegaming said: i really hope they don't release a new console soon in the next year or 2 cause in the end that will do more harm then good just look at sega with the saturn |
I don't think a true Nintendo console successor is coming anytime soon, though I do suspect a handheld/console hybrid platform is well underway with Wii U level visuals.
That said the constant Sega analogies are really flawed I think. Sega released the Sega CD in 1992, then the 32X in November 1994, and then the Saturn in May 1995 (six months apart!) ... that is why the Sega brand became so tarnished.
Nintendo is hardly in the same boat, they released the DS just 3 1/2 years after releasing the GBA and suffered no negative blow back at all in the long term, in fact the DS went on to become their best selling game platform ever.
No one would've complained about the 32X/Saturn if the 32X had a full 3 years on market to itself for example.
