| XanderXT said: @Intrinsic Remember the Gamecube? It had good specs, good third party, and did it outsell the original XBox? No! |
Did it have third party support on par with the PS2/XB??? NO!!!!
Its not enough to just have a console that is at least as powerful as the other consoles you are competing with. But its an important first step, would you take a 250cc bike to race against 1000cc bikes and expect to win?
The all important next step is to have the third parties release games on your platform. The original XB knew this was important and lobbied as hard as they could to get a good number of third party support. The GC barely even tried. MS capitalized on this and moneyhatted their way into getting third party parity with the 360 and look at how much good that did for them. Again, nintendo didn't even try.
We can debate on all the reasons why nintendo is failing all day long, all I am saying is that they should at least have done all the basic things first. The safe things. The obvious things (hardware performance, online infrastructure and third party support). Then we can work out the details or more exotic things (the controller and marketing) later. This is why I say that nintendo failing wil almost make one wonder if they are trying to fail on purpose. Cause they are ignoring the obvious things.
