After the Wii U disaster, will you buy Nintendo's next console?

[Jon-Erich]

ZyroXZ2 said:

spurgeonryan said:

ZyroXZ2 said:
I'm going to go ahead and title-comment on this one:

The Wii U is not a "disaster".

And yes, I will buy every console Nintendo makes until the day I die because I grew up with their games as a kid, and it's only fitting I pass away with their games as an old man.

Then what do you consider a disaster? Does a disaster have to equal virtual boy? You can come back from a eisaster, that was an extinction level event. 

 

Yes?

Considering I actually played with someone elses's Virtual Boy (omg, that sounds so wrong now that I'm typing it!), that was by far one of the more "experimental" things Nintendo has ever done (and we're talking Power Glove stuff here, lol).

A disaster is the nail in the coffin.  The Wii U, in no way, spells the end of Nintendo.  The Dreamcast is closer to a "disaster" than the Wii U, because it was Sega's last chance, and since it put their hardware division and almost the entire company out of business, THAT is a nail in the coffin.

The Wii U isn't even outpacing the Dreamcast, but it's far from tanking Nintendo... VERY far from it.

I don't think the Dreamcast was a disaster. As I said in other posts, Sega Saturn killed Sega's hardware business, not Dreamcast. It was too late for Dreamcast to do anything about. In fact, Sega had actually planned to leave the hardware business after the Dreamcast. The only reason Dreamcast saw the light of day at all was so Sega could restore it's reputation amongst consumers, which given that they were such a brand-driven company back then, it was actually a smart move.

 

Also, I wouldn't necessarily call Wii U a disaster. Unless it starts doing as badly as the Sega Saturn (with both sales and finances), then it's more like an underperforming console. It's true that Virtual Boy was a disaster, but that was a disaster that wasn't too much of a financial burden and since it was seen as being less important than the Game Boy or N64, it could be killed of and buried rather quickly. 

That being said, hell yeah I would buy the next Nintendo console. Wii U without a doubt has the single best software lineup of any 8th gen consoles far and given what's coming out next year, it looks like it'll be that way for some time. If this is what an underperforming Nintendo console will give us, then I would rather them not have the #1 console anymore.