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Soundwave on 04 January 2016
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zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:

 

They might as well start applying for a Playstation 4/XBox One license, because they're done as a console maker if they do that. 

The Wii model doesn't work without a miracle controller to go with it. It's like saying you're going to put all your energy into becoming a model when you're not good looking to begin with. 

The portable would do well in Japan, but their portable marketshare in US and Europe would continue to shrink too. They need to bring a product with more "wow" to the market than that. 

 

I don't see them trying to compete head on with Sony/Microsoft, I see them trying to blur the lines between what mobile & console game are, something that falls into its own middle ground market that can appeal to both sides of the spectrum.

To say Wii's success was solely due to a miracle controller is both naive & ignorant, it was a major factor but far from the only one, a controller doesnt mean shit without the right marketing, price, and software to push it. Besides who ever said Wii levels sales are required from the console portion to be a success?

 

If they're making a dedicated video game console .... I'm sorry but the reality that they're going to have to accept is they ARE competing with Sony/MS whether they want to or not. Wii could alter that because the controller brought in tons of casuals, but that doesn't happen without that controller. 

Kids know the XBox and Playstation brand, they're not going to buy a "Nintendo" that's 1/2 the power of the other two and has 10 games versus 2000 for the PS4 by that time just to save $50-$100 on a five year hardware investment. 

Third parties won't support an underpowered Nintendo console ever again either. After Wii U, EA, Activision, and many others are out for sure for that type of proposition. 

There would HAVE to be a mind blowing, industry altering controller for your equation to work. 

I don't think they could even get to GameCube level sales. Just being "cheap" isn't good enough.

Like I don't mean to sound rude about it, but I'm just being real here and not looking at it from "Nintendo fan" rose tinted glasses. This is a system no one but Nintendo hardcore fanatics would buy realistically. NX needs to be much more bold and change many more aspects of Nintendo's (flawed) hardware equation that exists today. 

The Wii did not sell because it was "cheap". At $250 it wasn't even that cheap (about $300 today after inflation, so the Wii U today is the same price and actually comes with 2 free games instead of 1). You could get an XBox 360 for $50 more from day 1 back then too. The reason it sold was because the controller absolutely offered an industry shaking revolution that attracted a completely new audience that was having basically 0 games made for it. 

If Nintendo has *that* idea just waiting in the wings, great, try that again, but my guess is they don't, and if they don't, that's not the end of the world but they have to start thinking outside of the box.