#1. The Wii was a one hit wonder, a fad in the purest sense of the word. They tried the same trick twice with the Wii U and it didn't work. Nintendo was always about new, innovative and cutting edge gameplay from the NES through the GC... the Wii was just recycled ideas with motion controls tacked on.... it began and ended with Wii Sports.
Of course, people often like to gloss over Nintendo's blunders from the N64 generation and onward, such as refusing to embrace CDs/DVDs as the preferred storage medium for gaming, and completely ignoring the emergence of online gaming as their competitors beat them to the punch, giving Nintendo consoles that "stuck in the past" feeling.
And of course it doesn't help matters when Nintendo themselves purposely design their consoles to be a generation behind their competitors in hardware capabilities for 2 straight generations now. The days of the $300+ console not being able to reach mainstream audiences are long gone... people pay that much every couple of years just for new phones.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.
