Anyone else enjoying the decline in hardware/rise of content?

[Pyro as Bill]

kitler53 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

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  you watch HBO's content without first subcribing to comcast, direct tv or some other cable tv service?  nope, they are third party in that they are dependand on someone else investing in creating and maintaining the physical serives in which HBO' content is delivered on. 

they can focus on content because someone else is focusing on delivery.  so when nintendo goes third party i agree, they will dominat the software charts on xbox and playstation. 

But Comcast and direct TV would be nothing if some else didn't invest in TVs and cable boxes, right?

And if nobody cares about the TV and cable box maker and the internet make 'deliverers' obsolete, then it all comes down to the content creators, no?

and no one cares about content without a viable platform to consume it 

 

you can say that nintendo makes the worlds best content and casuals are frothing at the mouth for more. i will disagree since all of nintendo's frachises are flopping this gen but lets indulge you for a moment.  consumers won't invest in a platform that doesn't support a healthy amount of content satisfying a wide variety of consumer tastes.  nintendo has shown for generations now a reluctance to do what is needed to cultivate relationships with any other content developer.  

in a battle of nintendo versus the industry nintendo loses. it killed the wii. it killed the wiiU. 

nintendo, in video games, has the dimmest future if they continue they current strategy. 

@bolded. Nonsense. The people who were causing the Wii to be sold out for 3 holidays couldnt care less about what was coming next. The content creators Nintendo was reluctant to work with (ex CoD (btw if SNES-NES builds can be done, there was no excuse for lack of CoD or Street Fighter 4)) were not market expanders. CoD has maxed the market (MOBAs might be this gen's saviour but wont expand anything).

Nintendo joined the industry in killing the Wii. They should have killed the industry instead.

What exactly do you mean by viable platform? Something able to play CoD and Minecraft?