| Captain_Tom said:
Or is it?!: Could Nintendo come back? Absolutily, I never say never! But I feel the great majority of people are underscoring just how hard a comeback would be for Ninty. In order to have the market presence they had in the good ol days of the NES (The Wii was clearly an outlier), they need to make a comeback greater than the PS3->PS4. No wrong moves, all right ones. Please do not bring up the PS3 btw. Sony was coming off of the BIGGEST market share domination of all time, and they still didn't come in first. Meanwhile the Wii U is tracking below the Dreamcast.
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I would say, for most people, it's the complete opposite. A much larger portion of people think that the fate of the Wii U (and/or Nintendo) is already set in stone and that there's no changing it. So of course when you see those kinds of comments, you're going to get retaliations making it seem like Nintendo can recover easily when people keep saying what is or isn't going to happen.
And no one truly knows what all the right moves are. If Microsoft knew, they wouldn't have had to make changes before and after the launch of the XBO in an effort to keep up with the PS4. If Sony knew, they wouldn't be selling so poorly in Japan right now with the PS4 and the PS Vita or in general with the PS Vita globally. And if Nintendo knew, they obviously wouldn't have ignored it. I keep saying these things, but no one really seems to listen. The decisions each company makes with their hardware and software lineups are NOT made last minute. They are planned a good bit in advance, and are clearly things that a bunch of people online couldn't ACTUALLY come up with a legitimate fix for in just a few minutes, hours, days, or even months. We don't know about all the internal issues each company may have to deal with, and we also don't know exactly how the general population reacts to certain pieces of hardware or software and their shortcomings. It may seem obvious, but it isn't really. Miscalculations are always possible, but it doesn't mean that they never accounted for it in the first place.
So many of you guys here act like you could actually be advisors for any of the gaming companies out there, but I can guarantee you that most, if not all, of you would not be qualified for the job.
Though discussing these topics may be interesting and there's no harm in speculating, too many of you guys act like your suggestions are the truth and that no one knows what they're doing because they're idiots.
FYI: This wasn't really meant only for OP but a general statement to many of the kinds of things I have seen posted here (and a lot of other places, actually), especially recently.
