freebs2 said:
Does it matter about what exactly? I don't think I understand your question. This thread is about what Nintendo should have done to follow up Wii success, I'm not "bringing up" Wii success to prove some point, the Wii success is the topic of this thread. Can you please expain better what do you mean? As for the second question, no that's not what they did. Amiibos are the only exception, and they were very late to market, compared to activision and disney - timing is important. They didn't push digital distribution. Yes they have digital distribution now, but their digital games are as expansive as phisical copies. The whole meaning of DD should be to tear down prices (since you don't have distribution costs), after all smartphones and tablets are solely based on digital distribution. They have partially expanded their first party studios but not for the purpose of making more games, their purpose was making "bigger" games, more expansive productions. That startegy works for Sony/MS since they can count on 3rd party support, the strategy for Nintendo should have been to create a larger number of "smaller" titles. That's clearly not what they did. Cross-buy is a feature that probably WiiU and 3DS successors will natively have, most probably. That's one generation too late, again timing is important. Nintendo is stuck in the cycle of developing 2 titles for each of their series (one for home consoles, one for handleds) every generation and this have 2 important consequences: they're wasting resources that could be spent developing a larger library with more variety, and second they're cannibalizing themselves (take New Super Mario Bros 2 and New Super Mario Bros U for instance). More connectivity and social media integration: the online capabilites of WiiU are still very limited both in terms of services and gaming. They haven't integrated anything in terms of social media, they've made miiverse which is very poor attempt to make a proprietary SN. The whole menaning of social network is connecting with people with a profile page and sharing content. Miiverse is exclusive to WiiU users, so there are not many to connect with anyway, you don't have a personalized profile page (except for your Mii), you can't share anything but black and white drawings, and in general is very slow and limited. It's really more like a forum than a SN. But more importatly, the Wii was about "inclusuion" while the Miiverse was made with an "exclusive" mentality. If they really wanted to push social gaming they should have implemented their consoles with "real world" social network like Facebook, Twitter, etc. They should have implemented cross platform multiplayer with friends on FB, game related status updates, etc. etc. Sony did a much better jod on social integration with Twitch on Ps4. Also, if they wanted to follow up Wii success the console itslelf should have been cheaper, not only compared to the WiiU but also compared to the Wii since the motion control thingy was not a novely anymore, 199$ could have been a correct launch price point, for sure not 349$. |
I hear and everything you are saying makes sense, but IMHO all those things are being done better by...well just about everybody else and if im being really honest the others have been doing a better job at it since before the WIi U even hit the market. Like you even said timing is everything and they've been late too the ball too many times.
I dont agree with the expansion part, arent they doing exactly that with games like Hyrule Warriors? Wasnt that the point of getting Bayo 2? Hell i would even put Mario Maker and Splatoon in that category.
Thing is i dont even think the WIi (soccer moms and grannys) even care about those things. And if they did as i stated before literally everyone else has been doing a much better job than Ninty ever did on those fronts.
So to simplify, there was nothing they could have done, I mean there were better options but anything still would have been a big drop. a Wii 2 would probably be doing n64 numbers which is better but still not great.
