zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:
To be honest unless they have a killer idea I'm not sure a Nintendo console can be successful in the modern market context.
They may want to focus first and foremost on the portable, and if there is a second home-only SKU, just make that more of a companion type product.
GameCube was $99 for like half its life cycle and it still only capped out at a rather mediocre 22 million install base. So I dunno if price alone is the solution.
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I understand the concern regarding Gamecube but something that many people forget or ignore is that Nintendo was trying to compete directly against PS2/Xbox and for about 90% of its life the competitors were a mere $50 more with multimedia features and better 3rd party support. That plus Nintendo messing up with a lot of their own IP, no traditional Kirby, Donkey Kong or Star Fox, Mario Sunshine felt like a spinoff, Zelda went with a poorly received at the time artstyle. There was a lot of things going against Gamecube despite the low price.
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Price is an issue, but it's not the only issue. The other thing is I think Nintendo by giving Sony/MS basically 3 years+, has given them plenty of time to get their own pricing down into an affordable range. So even if NX is say $100 cheaper than a PS4, if the PS4 has 300+ games next to NX starting at say 10 ... well like the PS2 a lot of people will probably be willing to pay more to get what they perceive is the better product.
What Nintendo needs is something new and different that is a legitimate game changer. And I have no idea what that would be, but that's for them to figure out.
Even when the XBox One was $499.99, a full $200 more than the Wii U, I believe it was still outselling the Wii U.
