| bigtakilla said: I've been thinking recently about what Nintendo should do and how they could further seperate themselves from their competition and be looked at as a separate entity in the video game World. What it led me to is two different potential paths they could take, but wanted to get other peoples opinion of how they think Nintendo should approach the future. Option 1: End the Wii U life cycle a little early. By this I don't mean 2015 or 2016, I'm more thinking 2017 or 2018. By doing this they could offer something a little more powerful than the PS4 and XBone with a few years before either of those companies drop their next console. The pros to this is the hardware could be more powerful and still be sold rather cheaply, and by the time devs draw all the power out of the other consoles, Nintendo fans can look forward to multiplat releases end cycle of current gen and beginning cycle of the gen after (cross gen games, ect). The problem would still be those years in between, but that could give Nintendo time to create their 1st party games and release them mid gen. Also the hardware could maintain its good price point. This is essentially what they done with the Wii U, had it released a year or two earlier. In this scenario Sony might do what Sony does best and come out with commercials or speak in public events saying Nintendo left Wii U owners high and dry, and that's when Nintendo starts their hype campaign, The "We want what you want" campaign. In this they need to put the first party and VERY IMPORTANTLY third party devs up front. Show the people that they get the majority of games, and they also have amazing exclusives and first party titles. Option 2: They could ride the Wii U out, give us some games we've been dying for like F-Zero, or Star Fox, make a profit and everyone will be happy, but in this scenerio they wait two years AFTER the release of the new PS and XBox systems, and come out with specs that beat them after the specs have been confirmed. This for all intent and purposes work the same but this way means you can kiss any potential multiplats from here to mid next gen bye bye. The pros to this is Nintendo fans get to play those ellusive first party games that keep getting pushed to the sidelines for a second or third Mario or Legend Of Zelda. This could also help show demand for these franchises and get Nintendo motivated to start making those games again, giving people more Nintendo exclusive IPs to brag about. The long term goals would remain the same, however the short term (current gen) goals would need to keep the same course. Keep the 3rd party exclusives coming, keep the Nintendo IP's coming, keep gaming crossovers coming, in general keep the games coming. We should not experience huge gaps in quality releases like the first year EVER! The ultimate winning strategy here is to drop midway in a gen, pretty much eliminating any chance of Sony or Microsoft being able to release a new console side by side with or earlier than the next Nintendo console. I could go on and on but what are your thoughts? |
Hard to see how you would consider 2017 or 2018 early - that would be 5 to 6 years after Wii U's launch which is not early; if anything it with the way Wii U is doing now 2017/18 seems like too long to wait.
360 vs PS3 is an example where it paid off to be early, so it could work for Nintendo to be a bit early. It's a double edged sword though, because if the others then come out with more powerful systems then the initial effect may be short lived.
Anyway, I don't think Gen 8 will be that long so I'd consider 2017~18 too late. I'd say 2015~16 is mid-gen.
