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Lucas-Rio on 12 October 2014
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Purple said:
Lucas-Rio said:


The success on the Wii was based on motion control, not on "new ip".

The only reason why licence did not grow from Wii/DS to Wii U/3DS is poo hardware sales.

Nintendo franchise are not declining, they are selling less because much less hardware has been sold. That's all. A lot of thse franchise grew a lot from GC to Wii.

So firstly I take it you accept every Nintendo franchise has had fewer sales from last gen to current gen. This is called a decline so my premise isn't wrong as you intially stated.

Saying the success of the Wii is exclusively due to motion controls without any acknowledgement of the software is short sighted. People weren't interested in waving a stick around for no reason. They were interested in the way those games used motion controls to create new experiences. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Brain Age, Nintendogs etc. are all massive reasons the Wii and DS sold what it did.

Now Wii U also has motion controls. If motion control alone sold hardware, the Wii U would be doing well. The reality is, the Wii U has no new software that excited people like the Wii had. Simply releasing improved versions of Nintendo classics is killing the brand. Fewer people are picking them up because people want new games, not the same old thing slightly improved.

Edit: This isn't a Nintendo exclusive issue. In a a few weeks Destiny is the top selling game on PS4. People want new experiences on a new console. Titanfall is the biggest game on Xbox One. I'm starting to see a pattern here.

Of course Nintendo software sells lesss on a sub 10 millions hardware than on a 100 millions hardware, this isn't surprising at all.

Nintendo's Wii success was mainly due to motion control, at that time it was revolution that brought a lot of new players. The Nintendo DS also was a revolution with two screen and the touch screen , who was first used in gaming.

Nintendo has been attempting to replciate these success by founding new innovation. For the 3DS it was the 3D, after Avatar, a lot of people thought 3D would be big, it never became big, and is now just a side feature in the 3DS.

With the Wii U, Nintendo tried to copy the tablet design when tablets were becoming huge. But it did not worked sinced the Gamepad isn't fonctional as a tablet at all. It just have the design and some nice feature like the second screen.

The Wii U is a flawed hardware, with a weak CPU, a gamepad that people aren't interested in and who add unecessary costs.

 

Regarding Titanfall, it is a very high budget game, but it endend selling less than MK8. Destiny is a shitty games with the biggest budget ever and a marketing campaign that ave branwashed people into buying it. It still has less than expected sales.