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Intrinsic on 13 December 2014
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Experimental42 said:


1. I'm saying literally the exact same thing as you.

2. I'm just saying they need to not jump the gun. Early releases NEVER work if your competition doesn't go full retard. The XB360 is the only early "next gen" release that was successful on the same level as its peers, and that's only because Sony went full retard on release of the PS3. 500 dollars, inferior online, and a pain in the ass to develop for? Gee, I wonder why the XB360 did so well.

3. Nintendo needs to milk what they have. while gearing for a proper release within the same window with around the same power. 

4. If they learn their lessons, release a capable box that will last the entirety of the next generation, and finally f*cking advertise, Nintendo is going to take over.

5. Also, I would have put money on the Wii U being far more competitive if it released in the same holiday rush as PS4 and XB1. The Wii U would have been mentioned in every crappy gamejourno article that was crammed down our throats, it would have had a very strong launch lineup, and it wouldn't have had an entire year of everyone calling it a dismal failure that was already dead by the release of PS4/XB1.

  1. Technically yes you are, we are however arriving at slightly different conclusions though.

  2. Good example, and good observation. As you said, early release favoured the 360 cause sony shot itself in the foot. Absolutely right, coming in at $600, a year later, with moe complicated tech, the one thing sony needed to have done was release a console with at least 1GB of ram and a considerably more powerful GPU. And last gen would have been a completely different story. An early release will work if you do what your competition will no doubt do a year later. Thats why i said if nintendo is releasing a year before the PS5/XB2, then they better release a console that will play games at 4k. Cause that is exactly what sony/ms will do when they release too.

  3. Nothing wrong with this strategy. Will be a sound strategy is as you say they get it right. Cause the benefit of releasing first means you don't have to compete directly. Also puts you in a position where your platform is more familiar to everyone else and you have a bigger library by the time everyone else comes to market.

  4. Dunno about them taking over, you need to understand that the nintendo core fanbase is actually a lot smaller today than it was during the GC era. The core fanbase are made up of the people that will be a nintenod console no matter what. Right now, I doubt there are even up to 25M such people around anymore. If they do this, that means they are going head to head with sony and ms in an part of the gaming industry that they have ignored for the past 2 generations. It won't be easy at all.

  5. Yes an No. Basically, the reason the wiiU was not mentioned at all and people kinda treated it like it hadn't even come it, was cause it was only marginally more powerful than the consoles that were just about to be replaced. If the wiiU released as is when the PS4/XB1 came out.... it would have been a disaster.