What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

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oniyide said:

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yeah i was wondering about this whole competing thing? it doesnt make sense. It never made sense. It is just something that people made up to justify why a game doesnt do well on a Nintendo console. COD in no way competes with anything Nintendo puts on its system because it doesnt make anything like it. Assassin's Creed, Need for Speed, Resident Evil, Tekken. Its fallacy, hell there are LOT of genres that Ninty doesnt even touch. RPGs(western style) 3rd person shooters. FPSs, adventure/action games (ala TombRaider & Uncharted), fighting games (im putting it down because Smash plays very different than other fighters). Racing games (not kart) Sport sims.

If anything these games should do well since they otherwise wouldnt exist on Ninty console since Ninty isnt making those games anyway. As for your strategy. No Thats not a strategy. Its simply Ninty walking up to these guys giving them some money to produce a game FOR them. They are not for 3rd parties. I highly doubt these companies are going to Nintendo im sure its Nintendo going to THEM. No 3rd party is at the beck and call of Ninty. THey dotn need to be. I brought up Tekken and Resident Evil because they are two of the companies biggest series respectively. They put Tekken Tag on there and a Tekken game on 3ds...last year they both flopped and dont pretend it had anything to do with Smash there was enough distance in release where one wouldnt effect the other, hell the WIi U one hasnt even released yet. Funny how every Ninty system since N64 (GB series notwithstanding) has hosted a Resident Evil game or two. Now all of a sudden its not a good fit? interesting.

Nothing is a good fit on a console that is marketed with the skill of unpaid interns.  If the console's image was more favorable or orriented towards diversity, it would greatly increase sales of software in general.  Watch a PS4 commercial; they do a lot of work to make you associate PS4 with the multiplats and to see it in a favorable light.  Watch the Wii U commercials and it doesn't even give proper weight to Nintendo's own software AND presents the console in an embarrassing or confusing light. 

Marketing and image are the major problem and will hamstring any efforts.  Even if Nintendo had all the third party support it would make no difference.  Third parties lined up at the start of the gen; the support was there.  They left because people weren't buying the platform and there was no money in it.  And people weren't buying because the marketing was so horrendous that people were either ignorant of the Wii U's existence or confused about what it was.  And those few who saw the ads for it may have been detered from purchasing due to the poor display and terrible image the console was presented in.