| Experimental42 said: They've invested in the future by loading 2015 with quality titles and plan to start dropping the bombs this holiday season with Smash and amiibos (they really screwed that name up, it should have been an amiigo, like a mii on the go and a play on amigo), then spread Zelda, Yoshi, X, Splatoon, Kirby, Mario Maker, MvDK, MP10, and possibly Devil's Third (depending on if Nintendo holds the project to its usual standard of quality) over the span of one short year. |
Hmmm...I think you've highlighted the problem right here. What you listed weren't just Nintendo's most anticipated games of 2015, but pretty much Nintendo's only games of 2015.
Although the forums on here would give you the illusion that people only care about exclusives, the truth is everyones taste varies so much you need more then just 6 great games per year. Its kinda like the way people spent all that time argueing titanfall vs Infamous, and then suddenly watchdogs (a game on both system) just comes and shits on both Titanfall and Infamous's openning week sales. Whilst everyone here is counting exclusives, Destiny, Witcher 3 and Batman will completely destroy everything besides maybe Halo Master chief collection...
To clarify its very difficult for first party studios alone to deliver the range of experiences that will appeal to a broad demographic, so typically this kind of line up only appeals to Nintendo's core. As a whole you have occasional mega sellers (Mario, Halo, The last of Us) but between that you need all the diversity that comes from 3rd parties. Just take me for example, the only games that appeal to me are Zelda and Yoshi... Now if you added Witcher 3, Batman and Final Fantasy Type 0 HD that would become a far more compelling list in my eyes and worthy of a console purchase for sure!
Now this leads me onto the second point. Even If Witcher and Batman were on the Wii U, it wouldn't be my ideal platform for those titles because of its weaker hardware. So its a pickle really, Nintendo kinda does need 3rd parties to achieve bigger sales, but even if they had them, they wouldn't necessarily do that well on the system.
But maybe you're talking consumer satisfaction and not sales? In which case I would only be satisfied with a Wii U long term is if it was secondary console. Only someone who found every Nintendo exclusive compelling would see it as a suitable primary system, whereas there are people who love their ps3's and 360's but have never even touched an exclusive.
