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Nem on 18 June 2015
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Soundwave said:
Nem said:

How did those good business decisions work out for SEGA soundwave? They are backing themselves into a corner. 

Your logic completely ignores future sales of said platforms and how they will be affected. If the NX is a home console, it will end like the dreamcast, and what then? Rush yet another system hoping things get better? That isnt a viable srategy.

When buying a system, customers put their faith on the system creators to make the investment worth it. If it isnt they wont make the same mistake next time. Do you think Sony has any chance of releasing a sucessful portabLe after the Vita? They wont even atempt such foolishness. Nintendo is heading in the same direction now. If you dont support your system, customers wont support you, its that simple. NX is already doomed.

I dont know who is complaining about the 3DS though. Its seen alot of support. Its the Wii U that is a problem.

The SEGA analogy again does not work. Sega released the 32X and 8 months later surprise released the Saturn with no marketing in the US. They failed to support both. 

Nintendo hasn't done that, they have supported the Wii U quite well, they just lost the casual/soccer mom demographic entirely and basically found themselves with a system that no one but Nintendo fans wanted. The Wii U is more like the original XBox which was supported by MS for 4 years than either the 32X or Saturn. 

If NX fails, then Nintendo is probably done with hardware and will become a third party. But the NX can fail just as easily if Nintendo is preoccupied supporting the failing Wii U and launches the NX slowly. 

The longer the Wii U stays on the market, likely the more damage is being done to Nintendo's brand. 


Lets not act like this is the first failure system Nintendo had. But with the GC they supported it to the last (also with pretty agressive price cuts). That has not been the case with the Wii U.

You can see on this website how the core Nintendo fans are reacting to this situation. So, if they lose their core fans, who is going to buy the NX? It will potencially do worse than the Wii U unless it somehow manages to earn back some of the customers it lost.

I dont think that staying longer in the market with the Wii U would hurt them anymore. They would keep their core fanbase and the only other people who care are core gamers that are rooted on the rival consoles. The casual audience they lost doesnt go about reading internet forums and gaming news so they wouldnt know the difference. The only way to regain that audience is to go back to some simplistic gimmick anyways.

So, the question becomes: Who is Nintendo trying to get with this? Core fans will be pissed off, casual gamers will only come with a simplistic gimmick, core gamers from rival companies? I dont see who is asking for this nor who this is directed at. Either way, i dont see how it can work any better than the Wii U.

Only chance i see is the so called Fusion and trying to unify both markets because on the portable market they are still strong. Home console market is completely lost like this. Not even the 10m of the Wii U will come back.