Soundwave said:
They'll never pull a Wii/DS generation again (not in that way). Motion gaming is old hat, and Nintendo doesn't have some monopoly over it, if it started to get popular again, MS and Sony are not stupid, they would copy it very quickly this time and offer similar experiences on top of having the better third party support and larger game library. It wouldn't take much for Sony to simply re-add the Move controller back into the PS4 for example and make a knock of Wii Sports again, but this time Nintendo wouldn't have a 4 year window where they basically hold a monopoly on the idea like the Wii did. Sony/MS have learned from their mistakes that gen, some earth shaking controller that brings in lots of consumers would be copied very quickly (much like the N64 analog stick was). Having wildly different control inputs on unified platform kind of defeats the point too. It would be like making a big time app but it only works on the iPad and not the iPhone because of some input thing ... not too many devs would want to do that. Beyond that, I think Nintendo/Sony/MS have all lost that casual audience. In 2004-2006 there was nothing for casuals to play, today they all have smartphones with hundreds of free/$1 games in their pocket all day long, and those games are all mostly simple, very easy to pick up and play with no buttons required. None of them want to play Wiimote or Kinect games anymore, Apple/Google offer a more vibrant, exciting ecosystem that's constantly adding content, is more convienant (phone is always with you), and the games are free in most cases ... can't really compete with that. Quite honestly these casual games on phones have bigger marketing campaigns than any Nintendo game too, I've seen about 50 million Game of War and Boom Beach ads it feels like in the last year. |
Whats the point of debating with you if you truly believe the only new idea Ninty can come up with is another Wii remote? Ill leave the new experiences to Ninty lol not some nobody on the internet. Ninty will never pull a new Wii/DS? We're talking about a corporation that will probably be around for a very long time.