mountaindewslave said:
the touchscreen gamepad was a mistake- too expensive. Nintendo could have sold a tonnnnn more Wii U's if they simply had used a less expensive controller, something more traditional, and priced at like 200$ out of the gates. would have been very do-able a lot of casual gamers out there who prefer, say, Sony, enjoy SOME Nintendo games and might pick up the system for a cheaper price simply to have an extra activity. 3DS is doing fine, obviously we can say that when Sony would love for the Vita to have the same success the Wii U had a lot of hiccups in terms of design and marketing, but the good thing is its very in your face and obvious where things went wrong. much better situation for Nintendo to be in knowing problems they can fix rather than totally being at a loss and confused to why they didn't succeed Nintendo knows that to succeed next generation they either need a home console that has competitive graphics/hardware or something that has worse features/specs BUT is much more affordable. either one of those routes should garner them success, but having a fairly pricey system with a gimmick would not be a smart move again |
I don't think Nintendo can reliably have a hit selling console without a controller gimmick.
Fact is every single one of their consoles outside of the Wii, which temporarily attracted a ton of casual non-gamers before they got hooked on smartphone apps, from the NES onwards has had a fairly consisent down trend in sales from generation to generation.
