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cunger on 12 June 2014
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justinian said:
cunger said:

I think Nintendo is positioned well and they are getting some nice 3rd party exclusives like Bayonetta 2 and Devil's Third.  In the modern era there aren't a lot of retail game releases in general so gamers are going to be looking to a second system to fill the gap and Nintendo is the obvious choice here since they don't charge for online and are far and away the dominant exclusive high quality game provider. Moreover their exclusives offer gamers a variety wheras Sony and Microsoft exclusives are often trying to copy eachother and mark checkmarks in the box for certain game types. You don't need to buy a xbox one for Fortza when PS4 has drive club ect. You don't need to buy a ps4 for Killzone and the order when Xbox one provides Gears and Halo.  Nintendo just needs to continue delivering high end exclusives and move their system price in a downward direction and they will end up being the second console of choice for ps4 and xbone owners and the first console of choice for Nintendo fans.

This is what I hoped will be the case. The Wii u is priced just right to be considered a second console for many. Nintendo has something the other two don't offer and as you said the other two basically offer the same thing.

I think going forward Nintendo has to market the console this way. They need more Bayonettas and more in house developers.

What they really need to do is unify theirs systems much like how apple unifies iphone ipod touch and ipad.   Make it so that a 3rd party game could be developed for the handheld and the console without much effort.  If the install base was 3ds plus wiiu it would be a no brainer to develop a madden game for example. But as they are right now it would take two seperate development efforts. Secondly if the online for such a game was tied together people would have an easier time finding matches than they did with madden 13 on wiiu and make the game more appealing to purchase.   There could be an added value to purchasing a game digitally because it could be played on the handheld or the console. Most importantly this would make it so that Nintendo could carry a console/handheld by itself and have a steady stream of games at all times.