| Miyamotoo said: When you having worst gen in your history and worst selling console, you will seat down and really think what lead to something like that, what I done wrong, how to prevent that next time and how to have much successful generation and console. Remember, we are talking here about company that operating from 1889 that is in gaming from begining and that have loose only in 2 years in their entire history. Nintendo is doing so many changes this gen, so I really can't see how you can completely ignore that: Amiibo figures, great online play, DLCs, completely new account system, Nintendo Club replacement and other new Nintendo services, mobile games, completely new unified platform, they already stated they will correct most of 3DS/WiiU mistakes with NX...ignoring all this and saying that they are still very stubborn and they dont change, make no sense. When you say "maintstream gaming crowd" you probably think on "PS/Xbox", thing is that Nintendo was always very difrent and uniqe (for better or worse), and thats why their games and hardware are so difrent and uniqe (with hardware they have hits and misses but their games are always great), last thing I want is that we have onother same company like PS/Xbox in gaming market or onother clone of PS4/X1 console or like in previous gen onother clone of "HD twins". So they definitely are changing, but they also want to stay unique and different in same time, and I think that's best solution for Nintendo. So you saying that first HD, true open Zelda with bigest world ever, that looks beatifule, and what seems Zelda that will be one of the best Zelda games ever, that will probably be released on two platforms on which on one will very likely be launch title, will sell only like Wind Waker on GC!? I dont think so, all things considered Zelda U will most likely have similar sales to TP, no to WW or SS. |
Nintendo's "changes" are too small. They still don't understand the modern gaming mainstream, as evidenced by recent decisions like no voice chat in Splatoon, no online play in Mario 3D World, the clusterfucks that are Mario Party 10 and Amiibo Festival, this year's terrible E3. If they'd really recognized their problems and were trying to turn things around, none of these things would have occurred.
Nobody is saying they need to abandon Mario and co and become a clone of Sony, but they do need to start making more games that target the 13-30 male demographic if they want to stay relevant. They need to diversify, to make more than just E-rated fare.
And as I've previously said, yes, I consider it highly unlikely Zelda U will approach Twilight Princess level sales. It lacks appeal to gamers who aren't already fans, and it will be on one dead console and another totally unproven one.
