How exactly is Nintendo going to make the NX a success?

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From a software point of view though, I don't know. I know what they need to do, but I don't think they made any moves hinting that they're planning on doing it. They need many things. They need way more AAA games first party games. They need a massive western branch. They need third party support. They need to make aggressive IP acquisitions.

I'm not going to beat a dead horse, but a Capcom acquisition would me huge. They have the some of the most iconic and valuable IP in the industry and they are in a position now where they are open to a buyout. On the other hand, they could buy a western studio with less iconic brands like what Square did, and bring them to relevancy again.

Regardless of my opinion on the stupid new Tomb Raider, square did a smart thing by reinventing it for this era. Same with Theif, Hitman, and Deus Ex. All of those are mainstream and relevant now thanks to Square's acquisition of Aidos, and they've done something that Nintendo has been in serious need of doing for decades now with ease. Nintendo needs to cater to the audience who buys those kinds of games.

The think, as I mentioned, is Nintendo's new lack of AAA quality games. And frankly, by that, I also mean the over abundance of budget titles like Tropical Freeze, Yarn Yoshi, Kirby, Pikmin, etc. When you lack the resources that Nintendo clearly is lacking right now, it's absolutely moronic to waste them on these kinds of games that, as good as they may be, are not block buster killer-apps that drive people to buy a new console. Those are the types of games you make after to have a decent sized dedicated audience, not before.

The NX need to have an abundance of big AAA first party games from the get go. The next Xenoblade can't come after three years of the console being out if there are no AAA single player first party games on the system until then. That just can't happen when you're the underdog like the NX will be. It needs to launch with something big, and it probably will with Zelda NX. It can't stop there, though. It needs to be peppered with games people of all demographics will want to play.

Metroid Prime 4, 3D Donkey Kong Planet, 3D Mario, Nintendo vs. Capcom, Mario Kart NX, Smash Bros. NX, Diddy Kong Racing Returns, Bayonetta 3, a Star Fox game that doesn't look like it was put together in a year, etc. Games that look expensive, sound expensive, and feel expensive. That's that people are buying consoles for. That may not be all, but for most people that's what gets their initial purchase.

And on top of that, like I said, it needs that huge western tentpole. It needs answers to games like Halo, and Uncharted, and The Last of Us, and Bioshock, and GTA and they can't just be old Nintendo IP with a new western spin like Prime was. They need thinks they don't have.

If you don't like it, you don't have to buy those games, but frankly, you're not the audience Nintendo needs right now. They need the guys who buy COD and Madden every year. They need the people who bought Deus Ex, and Hitman, and Theif, and Tomb Raider. That's their blue ocean right now.

Disney did a great thing by buying Marvel and Star Wars. Nintendo needs the same kinds of things in the video game world. To me, Capcom is their Marvel. I don't know what their Star Wars would be, and we'll probably never know judging by how things are going, but they need to be making those moves yesterday.