super6646 said:
Soundwave said:
The problem Nintendo would have with making a "me too" console next to the PS4/XB1 is the so-called "core gamers" (or some say casual-core who like COD/FIFA/Madden/Destiny etc.) would look at the Nintendo offering and see a flood of Disney-styled cartoony games on it from Nintendo and deem it inferior to the Playstation or XBox sitting next to it with the same third party games only with Uncharted, Halo, Last of Us, Gran Turismo, Forza, Gears of War, etc.
So that's kind of the problem with this whole line of thinking. Nintendo fans assume non-Nintendo fans like Nintendo franchises just as much as they do, and that's not the case.
The only way Nintendo could maybe work that is if they had a 2 year headstart or so (yes, Nintendo needs 2 years, 1 year clearly doesn't cut it) with a much more powerful console, then maybe they could get 2nd place vs. Sony and push MS to third.
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If they want 2 years, they need to launch no later than holiday 2016.
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I just don't think they can compete with Sony either.
They haven't been competetive with Sony for 20 years now in the console space, the only time was with the Wii and that was predicated on getting non-gamers to buy into a controller fad, not so much competing directly. Even there, with Sony doing virtually everything wrong to begin with ($600 launch) and Nintendo getting the benefit of almost everything going their way that gen, the PS3 is going to end up with 90-100 million units sold through, pretty much the same as the Wii.
Every other generation Sony has absolutely dominated Nintendo. I just don't think Nintendo has it in them to fight. Yeah, it's great that their core fanbase still has a lot of fight in them, but Nintendo themselves doesn't like competetion, Iwata even said it flat out, which was a little strange for a company to say, but it is basically true.
