Sony's Woes Show Just How Bad Nintendo's Are

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naruball said:

RolStoppable said:
When the reception is bad, change what you are doing.
When the reception is good, stay the course.

The market didn't like the GameCube, so Nintendo made the Wii.
The market liked the Wii, so Nintendo followed it up with a console that is like the GameCube.

That's a pretty glaring error. It's idiotic too.

Er, what? The philosophy behind the wiiu was exactly the same as the wii. Create a controller that the masses will like and will buy you console for and keep the console weak to make sure it's cheap enough for the casuals. It was an idea that was praised to death when it was revealed, only to be criticized to death by the same people when sales were lower than expected. Ninty and many of its fans thought it was a great idea because tablets were and still are incredibly popular with the masses and wii was successful despite being weaker than ps360. Things didn't go as expected but the emphasis on the casuals was the same. 

Not really, simply releasing a new type of controller doesn't mean it followed the Wii philosophy. Wii used affordable price+simple to understand controller+new gaming experiences+viral marketing to capture new audiences.

Wii U launched $100 more than Wii (not including the gimped version), reverted back to a "standard" control scheme just with a screen put in the middle, mostly sequels to Wii games thus making them no longer new experiences, and has very little advertising.

Wii was able to bring in new audiences with things like motion controls, nostalgia and party/fitness/dance/music games which were things that werent ever really pushed hard before the Wii. Wii U doesn't really bring much new to the table, the non-traditional gamer doesnt want to spend $300+ on a console that provides the same experiences as Wii and a touch screen controller isn't really new considering DS, smarphones, tablets all released before Wii U.