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

[Pyro as Bill]

kitler53 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

kitler53 said:

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.

wii, which began the gen outselling its nearest competitor by 400% with market expanding games..........ended with a totoal collapse in year four after they stopped making market expanding games, getting kicked out the market first, and currently maintains a mere 20% lead and shrinking to be followed up by what is on target to be thei biggest failure of a console after pouring the money from market expanding games to SoS (same old....)

industry didn't kill the wii, an inability to maintain consumer interest did.agreed, they also gave 3rd parties a window, big mistake disatisfaction with their library (have you looked at Metacritic for their/Nintendo games?), first and third party if Wii was the only game in town we wouldn't have seen 'casual' profits directed at higher resolutions, CoD and GTA would have been made in SD and would have been just as good if not better. i hear it all the time from wii owners, " it was fun for a bit but the games were just too shallow to keep my interest." Not from normal gamers and people who appreciate that game mechanics in cartoony clothes are no different than the same mechanics in brown, greynblack