NightDragon83 said:
Ever notice how the Wii sharply declined at the same point that tablets and touch-screen smartphones became mainstream? That's why the casuals left Nintendo. |
That's not true at all. Wii sales slowed down because Nintendo stopped to release games the mass market was interested in. Wii Music sucked and Animal Crossing Wii was a cheap game - that was Nintendo's Christmas 2008 line-up and from that point on it was all downhill. In 2009 they had some great games like Wii Sports Resort and Mario Bros. Wii (and sales went up in the latter half of that year!) but from 2010 onwards Nintendo concentrated its efforts on 3D Mario, RPG games nobody wanted to play (Xenoblade, Last Story) and the 3DS which totally abandoned the mass market and focued on (mostly 3D) hardcore games like Ocarina of Time, Kid Icarus, Fire Emblem, Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion, etc. Yes, there was a transition period from 2008-2012 when Nintendo couldn't decide between the mass market and the "Core" market but it gradually shifted towards the latter one - which resulted in a continued sales downward spirale. Right now Nintendo is in a total slump but instead of accepting reality people point at the cheap WIi Fit U and that soulless Wii Sports remake and cry "look! the casuals left Nintendo!" No. The "Casuals" are simply more intelligent than the core gamers who will buy anything if it only is advertised correctly. The mass market is not stupid and won't buy a $300 gaming console with a monster of a controller for games they already own (Wii Sports, Wii Fit, cheap and quick 2D Mario).
