AlphaOmegaSin on: NINTENDO NX and What it needs in order to succed!

[danielrdp]

zorg1000 said:

danielrdp said:

This. It would also help if Nintendo decides to change their approanch and releases more mature games like a gritty Metroid Prime or a new Eternal Darkness. Remember when N64 were the console to play shooters. Nintendo can appeal to those player as well as nintendo fan base.

Idk, in theory that sounds great but we already saw such a plan with GameCube and that didn't work too well. It was powerful, affordable, had  a standard controller, strong western support (EA/Ubisoft/Activison/Warner Bros/Midway/Acclaim/Atari/Eidos), Resident Evil exclusivity, return or Japanese devs that primarily ignored N64 (Namco/Square-Enix/Capcom/Konami), along with the introduction of games u just referenced like Metorid Prime & Eternal Darkness.

GameCube is the closest thing to what u describe that we have seen and it did rather poor even with being $99 for the majority of its life. To me, that's a pretty good indication that Nintendo should not strive to be like the others and instead needs to offer new things to differentiate from the competition like NES/Wii.

Nintendo was really luck with the Wii. I don't know if that can possible happen again. Gamecube biggest problem was the mini disc that Nintendo opted to use. Third parties had to try to fit the game in one or two discs, sometimes losing features in the process. Gamecube wasn't the perfect console either. Besides Microsoft introduced the Xbox live in 2002. Nintendo didn't have nothing similar to offer. We all know how important live is now. Nintendo shouldn't stop trying to compete with Sony and Microsft, because the gamecube's failure.