When will the 9th Gen start?

[binary solo]

*Sound Of Rain said:

binary solo said:

Differentiation for starters, making a break from a name that now means failure, and is forever associated with casual motion controlled gaming. Wii U (a stupid name to begin with) was based on the idea that they could partly cash in on name recognition of a wildly popular product, the only other time Nintnedo have done that in home consoles is NES/SNES. Only they didn't realise that in the later years Wii was actually not very popular at all and it was never paticularly popular with the traditional gamer market base.

A power boost is necessary to 1) make Nintendo versions of multiplats the best version, 2) not be an excuse for 3rd parties to leave Nintendo out in the cold on multiplatform titles, and 3) to pique the interest of the traditional gamer base who has rejected the Wii U precisely because it is underpowered. Like it or not a lot of people on whom the gaming industry depends for ongoing viability actually care about the power of the machine they are buying. It's one of the reasons PS4 is selling so much better than the other 8th gen offerings, even when you remove the price difference from Xb one and PS4.

It is clear that Nintendo 1st party titles only sell to a relatively small player base, so as much as Ninty fans want to believe the home console can survive without 3rd party support (or with 2nd rate versions of multiplatform games) it obviously can't.

Power won't bring 3rd party's to Nintendo.

Honestly, without some type of "new" thing, Nintendo will never be that successful with their consoles.

Lack of power seems to have kept them away. But perhaps Nintendo's disdain for 3rd parties is and will continue to keep them away.

But I agree with your last statement. There is something about Nintendo itself that keeps gamers away from Nintendo home consoles. I think its the perception that Nintendo is for little kids, which Nintendo is doing nothing to dissuade the market of this perception. What with the recent announcements of the Woolly Yoshi game and the Kirby Rainbow game it doesn't matter how great and challenging the gameplay is, or how good the games look, they are games that look like they are aimed at 6-year olds.

The "new" thing Nintendo needs to do is reinvent itself so that brand Nintendo appeals to a broader market, and not one that is a fly-by-night one generation wonder. But I wonder if the very name "Nintendo" is part of the problem.