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archbrix on 18 June 2015
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tak13 said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

What?loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

When revolution(wii) was teased in early 2004,gc was at 14.57m(sales),E3 2004 was underwhelming,there were the same discussions from what I 've checked in old forums that we have now  after the E3,but wii didn't release in 2005 but was just revealed at E3 2005,announced at E3 2006 and released in late November 2006. Was wii damaged because  it released after two years of its tease and one year of its disclosure?NO...

Nintendo's E3 2004 was definitely not underwhelming.  It was one of their best ever, lead by Resident Evil 4 and the debut of Twilight Princess (and the debut of the DS as well).  Their 2005 E3, however, didn't have much to push GC sales at all outside of Zelda being there, and the Wii launched the following year.  

This year's E3 was much better for WiiU regarding potential sales than E3 '05 was for GC though, especially when you factor in inevitable price drops for WiiU, but I still think it's very likely NX (whatever it ends up being) is coming by the end of 2016 and will have their full dev support behind it.