| gamemaster4747 said: Nintendo had it during the NES and SNES days. They have screwed up since N64. They need to go the route of PS4 and Xbox, and make it multi media friendly and quit being so cheap and make the most powerful console. Then they can possibly recapture the core audience and keep Nintendo fans as well. It's that simple Nintendo! |
It's funny that you say "it's that simple", as if it really honestly is.
But the entire time you're forgetting one simple fact: Sony and MS are mega-companies with many other MUCH more profitible divisions outside of gaming, both of whom also have access to their own hardware resourses. None of which Nintendo has. Nintendo has to go to and partner with outside hardware companies. They also have to pay other companies to make their hardware for them, whereas Sony and MS at least to a large extent get all their hardware tech internally. Nintendo is a gaming company. That is 99% of what they do. They do not have the resources, even with all the $$$$ they're sitting on from Wii and DS, to make "the most powerful console". Them not doing so isn't them being cheap. It's them trying not to bankrupt themselves, by overpaying for super-powerful hardware, and then in turn passing the buck onto the consumer by charing $400-$500 for new hardware. They can't afford to do that, and even if they did, do you HONESTLY think that all the so called "hardcore" gamers out there, would come running?
No. They wouldn't. Because those so-called "hardcore" gamers have been buying and playing Playstation and/or Xbox for years, and aren't about to run out and buy a new Nintendo console as their "#1", even if it WERE the most powerful system with THE best games coming to it, hands down. It simply would not work out that way. The only way Nintendo really fucked up with Wii U, and this is the honest truth, is in their advertising. The system actually had a really strong launch. But the advertising backing it up was some of the WORST I've ever seen in my entire life. They were pointless, annoying commercials with god awful dubstep, that didn't tell the general audience what the fucking system was even about, much less why they should want one. That, and to a much lesser extent, arguably the extra silly name, are what really hurt Wii U. After that, it was the games draught that Nintendo themsevles stumbled on, as they obviously were expecting third party support to continue strong, and fill in the gaps for their own releases. They got caught with their pants down on that one, and I do really think it all partially started due to the crappy TV ads. They should have paid for a massive media blitz, showing off the GamePad, all the cool shit it can do, and showing off the launch window games. But they didn't. And they honestly haven't gotten a whole lot better in the NA ads department since. Whoever runs that department should be fired.
