Nintendo not replacing WiiU for at least a few more years! ~Iwata

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curl-6 said:

 

I found GCN to be Nintendo's nadir.

They butchered Zelda, 3D Mario, and Starfox, overcomplicated Mario Kart, and Melee's one of the most overrated games in existence. Metroid Prime 1 & 2, RE4, and Twilight Princess were awesome, but they had superior Wii versions

I'm sorry but Metroid Prime 1 is in my opinion the greatest game Nintendo has ever produced. That game and Eternal Darkness alone made the GCN for me.

 

(Also, Double Dash was great. Seriously it's just two characters on  Kart, it's not fucking rocket science.)

 

Soundwave said:

Podings said:
There is no basis whatsoever for expecting a new Nintendo home system to arrive less than four years after the previous one.

I think Nintendo fans may want to enjoy their Wii U while it lasts, because there probably isn't a successor to it coming in a traditional sense, not because Nintendo feels obligated to support the system for X amount of years, but moreso because they will have little interest in continuing forward in the console space. 

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft bails out of the console biz too after this gen. 

Sony will likely be the only one left that's really strongly attached to the idea of a traditional home console, most because they have the most to lose. 

Nintendo's console audience has basically whittled away into such a small niche that they won't really miss it, they'll just roll that audience into their handheld base and let future handhelds run games on the TV. 

Nintendo's not in this business to provide support to platforms that sell a paltry 3 millions units/year, the Wii U will be supported through 2015 just to keep the fans happy, but I think behind the scenes they're already well underway in focusing on different hardware pillars which will actually be the future of their business (for their sake they better hope that QOL thing takes off). 

You don't need to repeat your theory 4 times in the same thread man.