| Smear-Gel said: Nope. The hardware and software is not the problem. It's the perception. And anything that will confirm the negative perception rather than turn it around is a terrible idea. |
"Their" software may not be the problem but their "hardware" is. Having significantly weaker hardware literally limits their market to only the nintendo faithful who will buy their console even if it was powered by peanuts. It also means that theer will be little to no third party support. And if the GC and now wiiU should have thought them anything, its that you can't succeed off your first party alone.
A dev considering making a port of a PS4/XB1 game to the wiiU is basically faced with porting their game over to hardware that is around 8 times less powerful and lacks the install base incentive to make that kinda ort worth it. Just imagine if the WiiU was at least as powerful as the XB1 this gen, got all the multiplat games that will come to the PS4/XB1 and also had all their great first party titles. And also had an online service on par with both. It would be a very very very different conversaton we are all having now about nintendo.
Nintendo are just not competeing on so many different levels.
