Did Microsoft just force Nintendo's hand?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

DexInDaJungle said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Yea but they didn't force anything from Nintendo though since Nintendo hasn't reacted and heck, the sales for december was Up in the US in YoY I believe even at that price for the wiiU

Right but it's still early considering they just made it permanent. Also I believe there was an increase YoY for all three simply because they all had more content to offer. Smash & Mario Kart for Nintendo. While they have a bigger (numbers not hype) line-up this year, one could easily argue that they already released their 2 biggest games for the console in the same year. Zelda will push consoles no doubt but highly doubt it can match Mario Kart/Smash, the rest will give small boosts for a few weeks.

This year there is more competition for Nintendo from Microsoft & Sony's first party as well as some really big third party games that more likely than not won't be appearing on the Wii U. So all in all, with the Xbox One now permanently being $350 and the PS4 having Last of Us bundled with it from now on, does Nintendo need to react, or are they simply gonna sit there and mind their own business?

Well of course its up cause it has more content to offer... Is there any console that goes up YoY with noticablly less content to offer? Games sell hardware so yea... Makes sense that more/bigger games sell more hardware...

But yes, I do understand that Nintendo should react and it makes the wiiU less appealing and etc but that doesn't mean that Microsoft "just" forced Nintendo's hand loll. If Nintendo hasn't reacted yet, that means Nintendo doesn't care. They might react in the future, sure, but saying that "Did Microsoft just force Nintendo's Hand?" is not really true cause Nintendo hasn't done anything

And heck, if there is a price drop, which I am sure there will be sometime this year, one could argue that its cause it was a natural price drop due to production costs being lowered rather than Microsoft forcing Nintendo cause there was no price drop in 2014 so there has to be one in 2015 or else they are just being greedy. But of course, that depends on the time frame of the price drop compared to x1's price drop

So imo, that title is incorrect since Nintendo hasn't reacted at all and I doubt they will do anything until the next Nintendo direct which considering we just had one, it will be a while till the next one