Nintendo isn't ready for next gen.

[jmorris724]

Jon-Erich said:

Mystro-Sama said:

Let's be honest, they aren't. Reasons:

 

1. They have absolutely no idea who they're catering to. They are beginning to dip their toes in 'mature waters' but still are obessed with the family audience that doesn't exist anymore. Proof of this is in their E3 this year where they intentionally left out games like Fatal Frame and Devil Third because it wouldn't fit with their kiddy puppet show leaving older Nintendo fans hanging.

2. They're cheap when it comes to hardware. Their main excuse for this is they use every ounce of power in their systems, which is true but really doesn't mean much if your system can't handle modern third party games.

3. Speaking of third parties reminds me of how awful their relationship with them are. They still have their old mentality from back in the day when they were king and saved the industry from crashing. Yamauchi who taught people in Nintendo like Iwata what they know openly said that third parties don't matter. Even developers came out and said that they knew little to nothing about the Wii U when it was being made and had little input, the opposite of what Sony and Microsoft did when developing their systems.

4. They're lost when it comes to HD development. This is probably one of the worst factors. This is the main reason why we had so many delays on the Wii U. They were a generation late when it came to HD development and are still struggling to this day.

5. They refuse to compete directly with their competitors. They say their competitors are doing the same thing and they're pushing creativity and doing their own thing when in reality I think they're just scared to step up to Sony and Microsoft since it's harsh competition. MS makes a robust online system, Sony steps up and create their own. Sony is pushing creative new IPs, MS does the same. I don't think Nintendo is ready that yet.

 

All in all I think they should ride out the Wii U completely until they fix these problems because if they don't and make all these mistakes with NX then they are pretty much permanently screwed on the console scene. Thoughts?

1. While their reasoning for not showing Devil's Third in any form is a mystery, they did have Fatal Frame at the Treehouse Live event. Also, the family audience still does exist. Look no further than the Super Mario games and the other franchises with Mario's name on it. Look at the sales for Mario Party 10. They were amazing, and I doubt most the people who are buying Mario Party 10 are a bunch of 30-something year olds who are going to be playing the game with other people their age. That game was probably sold to people in their 30's who got the game for their kids.

2. Nintendo started using less expensive hardware because competing in an arms race got them absolutely nowhere. They also need to make money on their hardware. Thie major problem right now are the third parties. They either need to make hardware that'll be powerful enough to appease the third parties or completely switch to the x86 architecture which even if it's an underpowered system, it would still be easier and less expensive for third parties to port their games to.

3. Nintendo is secretive by nature. That's who they are and that's how they've always been. My hope is that they can find out what third parties need but without having to show them everything. Even though it's a disadvantage sometimes, being secretive has also been one of Nintendo's greatest strengths. 

4. They've probably got the hang of HD development by now. It was in the early days when they had trouble with that. When you look at their Wii U games, they look great. So I think HD development will be less of an issue for them in the future.

5. Going back to the GameCube, they tried to compete directly with the competition and it did nothing for them. The problem is there's no room in the console for three consoles that are alike. At least one of them has to branch out and do something different. Sometimes it works like it did with the Wii and sometimes id doesn't work like it did with Wii U.

 

The big problem with determining wether Nintendo is ready or not with the 9th generation is that we don't know what they're up. We don't know what NX is. We just don't know anything yet.

that's not completely true. they tried to market the wii to as many people as possible and that meant keeping it SD. Wii U is less powerful because the gamepad made it expensive.