Did Anybody Else Notice That XB1 Erased That Gap The WiiU Build Up Form May -Aug In The Last 3 Weeks?

[Scisca]

Vena said:

Scisca said:

And as someone said it here, I hope Nintendo learns that at this point, they mean next to nothing on the market without having 3rd parties on board, so they can't afford any more of this crap with underpowered consoles that may be ok for Nintendo but give nothing to work with to the 3rd parties.

Its not power that moved third party away from Nintendo, its the image of Nintendo to the general public. Nintendo platforms simply do not work for the AAA warzone of huge-budgets, hype, and pre-orders for multiple reasons, the specs are the last reason. The NGC was the strongest console in its gen, didn't make much of a difference then either.

If anything, moving forward, Nintendo should embrace their new third party developers: indies and market the hits as they come as they did with Shovel Knight and others, like Shin'en games. Why bother with the unsustainable AAA format while all these studios race towards insolvency with larger and larger budgets like THQ, when you can support the plentiful indies.

No, power is the source of all the trouble. Nintendo hardware can't run 3rd party games the way they are meant to be played. GCN was powerful, but that gen 3rd party multiplats were the exception and most 3rd party games were exclusive to one platform, so this argument is totally invalid. Previous gen was the first in which 3rd party games became multiplats by default, but Nintendo already decided to go its own way with hardware that was a gen behind in terms of power and wasn't compatible with the expectations and needs of 3rd parties and of the gamers interested in 3rd party games.

You have no idea why THQ went bust, do you? A little hint - it wasn't because of a AAA game with a massive budget, but a casual, gimmicky one that was designed for Wii and only later ported to PS360, but only Wii gamers cared about it. If they were just focusing on AAA games, they'd still be fine to this day.

If embracing indies was enough to make a console successful, Vita would be doing fine. It isn't, cause nobody is gonna buy a console to play indies. And stop fooling yourself, PS4 is the far and away leader when it comes to indies and Wii U won't win this market back from it. All they can do is fight to be on par, but that alone is not a sustainable business model and never will be.