NX and reasonable game droughts

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Miyamotoo said:

Jumpin said:

Nintendo's main consoles, NES, SNES, and Wii did not have droughts like their failures: GameCube, N64, and Wii U.

Third party support comes with success. Nintendo had third party games on the Wii U at first, but the failure for them to get their own console out and sell it, largely due to the drought, made third parties cancel many of their projects.

Nintendo must have a solid release schedule which includes the mainline Zeldas, the mainline Mario's (like the Mario 64s and the Galaxies), the Metroids, the hot new business expanding games like Wii Fit and Wii Sports, they need to have it all. That is how they can be at the forefront of dominating and expand the industry again. They also need to disrupt their competitors like they did with the Wii, and that is not just Sony and Microsoft anymore, it's mostly Apple. They need to target those gaming platforms with a far more interesting and option.

N64 wasn't failure, even if PS1 sold 3x time better than N64, N64 with 33m was second best selling console that gen.

I wouldn't call it an outright failure either but I get what he's saying, it started the end of their dominance. NES absolutely steamrolled the competition and while Genesis put up a good fight, SNES was still the clear winner on a global level. With N64 they went from being the clear winner 2 generations in a row to being outsold 3:1.