| Twilord said: Its an odd concept, but I am wondering if 'Gameboy' as a brand name would help them shake off some of the pointless negativity that helped undermine the Wii U. The 3DS is doing quite nicely and I think we can all agree it is mentally associated with the Gameboy by many of the core gamers who have leaped on it.
Edit, I mean 'Gameboy' instead of 'Nintendo'. |
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Hell no! lol
They just need to drop Wii and have Nintendo abbreviated to N. Ala "N"64 or "NX" even though thats just a code name.
The handheld adopting Gameboy for their next portable would be wise IMO. DS is still a valuable brand but I don't think they have anything to loose with Gameboy and they would generate buzz, nostalgia and the casual audience that made DS a relevant name are now gone from the dedicated space and will instead be buying Nintendo games on their phone this fall. Again Nostalgia is probably Nintendo's best way to get the non core audience to even look at one of their handhelds going forward, not that they need to. Their next system will comfortably sell 50m regardless.
I'd personally like to see the next Handheld name GameboyHD and have a huge GB/GBA archive available at launch, and the next console name NX, N8, NG8 (G for generation/8th)... Nintendo themselves should remain "Nintendo" til the end of time!
