Can Nintendo Make Another Successful Home Console w/o Expanding?

[Mnementh]

torok said:

Mnementh said:

 

Sorry, this comparison is bad. PS4 is out a year later, after WiiU already has failed. but if you look more on your million-seller-list, you notice WiiU had a lot of predecessors to this games: COD, FIFA, NBA, NFS. If PS4 would have released a year earlier, these predecessors would be in your million-seller-list, but they failed to sell the WiiU. So you even strengthen my point: multiplats seem not to work for Nintendo-platforms.

And Nintendo made what 3rd-parties wanted with WiiU. Remember EA being full of praise? Unprecedented partnership? Remember that Nintendo hold back with own releases to give room for 3rd-parties to sell? That last point is part of the answer to your question why WiiU didn't sell. It had NSMBU and Nintendoland as first party games at launch - and then long time nothing.

3rd party support can't be partial. You have to get all games, 100%. Everybody bought a PS4 or a X1 because they know all games will come. The Wii U? It started missing BF4, that's already a huge one. 3rd parties didn't helped it because Nintendo lost all gamers that wanted 3rd party titles.

And no, Nintendo didn't made what 3rd parties wanted. We had a lot of 3rd parties ranting about how crazy Nintendo where with a weak CPU and bad specs. 3rd parties were involved since the begining in the PS4/X1 development process. So, they had 2 consoles exactly like they want and 1 that isn't even close. And that's it. Nintendo didn't hold their games to give room to 3rd parties, Nintendo made a late transition to HD and suffered like everyone, resulting in delays.

You say Battlefield was missing. That's right. I say unprecedented partnership. What should have Nintendo done more? Force EA with a gun to port the game? Also, not everyone likes every game. Even if a bigger one is missing, the support was good enough for most players. Not all of these millions that bought PS4 have Battlefield. To be precise, 2 million bought battlefield, so that makes still 8 million who should have bought WiiU in the first year - if it would have the name Playstation U. The point simply is - people who like 3rd-parties don't buy a Nintendo-console as long as they get the games on a Playstation. Heck, I assume many of them would quit gaming altogether if the big third-parties would be on Nintendo and not on Playstation. Nintendo needs something else to garner gamers. Yes, 3rd-party multiplats aren't hurting - but they aren't helping Nintendo either.