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Soundwave on 16 October 2015
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Hiku said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo does whatever the hell they want, just enjoy the games. I expect there will be some baffling/stupid hardware decisions even with NX, because that's just how Nintendo rolls, but I don't really care how it competes with the PS4/XB1 (market wise) anymore. I'll enjoy the games, that's all you can do as a fan/consumer.

Well that's just the thing though, isn't it? There are a lot of Nintendo fans out there who want to enjoy the games, but don't get to, because they don't feel like the console is worth the investment. Surely there are a lot more than 10m people interested in the Wii U games.
For their sake (as I'm included in that group) I hope Nintendo does a better job to convince those people buy their home console again.


Sure it would be nice, but at the end of the day, it's up to the consumer to choose what they want, and Nintendo is a mistake prone company. 

It is what it is, at this point I'm just pleased that new hardware is coming out. The 3DS was getting really long in the tooth and while I don't personally mind the Wii U, hey better hardware is good for me, so woo hoo. I can afford it so it's not a big deal. 

I'm just going to enjoy the games. I don't expect Nintendo to magically become a huge market force or something nor is my enjoyment of their products tied to market success. The market today is simply very, very different from the market of the 80s/90s and Nintendo in a lot of ways is still an 80s/90s company and competing with Sony/MS is simply much, much harder than the days of competing against Sega, which made as many mistakes/more mistakes than Nintendo did.

You could make a lot of dumb mistakes in the 90s (like censoring Mortal Kombat) and still bounce back from them, today there just is no margin for error and even if you have a great product in some cases that's not good enough any more, you can be a victim of bad timing. 

I don't expect much in that regard. If NX does well, great, if not, I don't really get too worked up about it any more. The games will be fun and they'll look gorgeous. If 16-year-old "dudebros" at EB decides he'd rather have a PS4 because it's what's cool ... whatever man.