| Fight-the-Streets said: Very successfull businessman often say that if someone never had failure and setbacks in his life an business, he can't be really good. What is true for an individual is also true for a company. In hintsight, I think it was good that the Nintendo WiiU was a commercial failure. This failure probably enables Nintendo to reach new heights. |
3 out Nintendo's last 4 console generations have been riddled with dissapointing sales I would say, in fact I'd say if you told Nintendo/Nintendo fans what the LTD of the N64, GameCube, and Wii U would be, there would be extreme shock/anger/denial about it before the fact.
Maybe they can pull another Wii out of their back pocket, but I think that's a very rare type of thing that doesn't happen very often in the industry. It's an idea that has to be so different from anything done before that it basically carves out its own niche.
But even then, I think Sony/MS are hip to that game too, if Nintendo were able to come up with a wonder-controller again, it would be copied much more quickly ... MS/Sony inexplicably gave Nintendo like 3-4 years with motion gaming exclusive, until Kinect and Move.
