Soundwave said:
People don't want "outdated" anymore I would say. People are more tech savvy these days, especially kids, you can't impress them by recycling some 10 year old piece of tech with some gimmick attached to it and think that strategy is going to work for you every time because Gunpei Yokoi said so in 1987 or someting. The NES and Game Boy weren't "outdated" feeling products for their time either, to me the NES was like a huge leap beyond what I thought of video games prior and that was basically playing Pong or Pitfall on my cousin's Atari 2600. The Wii and DS was simply Nintendo's correct read that with the PS2/GCN/XBox there were a lot of players that couldn't play modern games anymore. Mario Sunshine was 1000x more complex than Super Mario Bros. or Pac-Man. So they cashed in on that, but Apple basically stole all their thunder. The iPhone is more successful with casuals and women than the Wii/DS could ever dream of being, they got the genie out of the bottle, but that genie now works for someone else. |
Wii U wasn't 10 years outdated, more like 4 or 5.
And 3DS was technically "outdated" too.
The home console market today is largely ruled by dudebros who get hyped for the latest "cool" product with high end graphics and blockbuster games. Obviously, a low end console won't fit the bill.
