Will The Nx Ruin Nintendo`s Console Launch Releases?

[Arlo]

spemanig said:

Arlo said:

I do think that sort of thing is something Nintendo needs to get on, but I don't think it would mean so many releases would work for them.  I don't feel like the type of person who buys a new phone every year or two or spends two grand on a laptop is the same type of person who buys Nintendo games.  Apple products are in high demand and hit every single adult demographic, including older people with well-established careers.  Nintendo products are...Nintendo products.  They hit a pretty small chunk of an already (relatively) small demographic of gamers.

Apple products sell to kids as well. Nintendo products being cheaper would make selling these things easier, not harder. Nintendo can easily change their branding to appeal to whatever audience they want to. They already proved that with the Wii, where they made the deliberate choice to appeal to a more casual audience in their ads for it. A similar rebranding for the NX could have them appeal to whatever audience they want.

And there isn't any "specific audience" that buy hardware upgrades. 90% of people who will buy the iPhone 6S this year will be people who owned an iphone 5S or lower, not people who bought the 6 last year. People harp on about there being a "new Apple product every year," but the reason that works is because the older products don't immediately become obsolete at the introduction of 1, or 2, or even 3 updates. People who bought a 6 aren't wishing they had a 6S. People who bought a 4S are wishing they had a 6S. Nintendo can pull off a similar thing with the NX.

Release a new NX every two years and a new NXDS every year, and allow the older versions to download the latest OS updates, and they'd rake in money.

I think I'm going to simply take the agree-to-disagree route on this one.  I just don't think any of that is accurate.  I might like to see how it would work in a world where Nintendo products were in high demand, but that's just not a world we're living in right now.  Right now there are pretty much exactly 10 million hardcore Nintendo fans, and they're the ones that already bought a Wii u.  I believe that Nintendo can take steps to make their consoles more apealing to gamers, but I just plain don't believe they're going to capture the casual market ever again.  They started something that smartphones and tablets picked up, and I strongly believe that those days are done for Nintendo.