What if Nintendo Doesn't Comeback?

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naruball said:

bdbdbd said:

It has the best exclusives. If they're not that good, the competition naturally has it worse. Who cares about reviews anyways these days, outside of PR. Sony did not manage to sell PS3 for 599. The situation for PS3 was pretty much the same Wii U is facing at the moment: the games started coming years after the release, although PS3 had lots of 3rd party games, while Wii U isn't.

 

I don't think that's the case. I was under the impression that the ps3 struggled until the slim model but then read that it did well from the getgo, outselling xb360 consistently every year until Kinect took off. Sony has such a strong brand in home consoles, it can convince the consumers to buy its consoles even at a high price and with limited first party games. Ninty cannot. Hence the wii being the only exception since the n64 says. But sure. Let's wait until the next ninty console is released and see how it does.

As for Ninty ips being stale, I agree with you (been playing pokemon Y the last couple of weeks) and it's stale as hell. Same music, same story (oooh, it's time fire causing trouble), many same moves, yet the games still sell amazingly well and move hardware.

If you (as in anyone) spend most of your time on Ninty forums or around Ninty fans expressing their excitement over Zelda, you get the impression that the wrold can't wait for the new Zelda game. The reality may be a bit different, i.e. the hardcore fans being very local and the masses being indifferent to the game.

PS3 did like shit. The worldwide sales of PS3 was pretty equal to PS2 in Japan. 360 did even worse. The hardware had constant revamps to cheaper models while cutting the price and taking losses as much as you can handle. SCE didn't go belly-up for fun.

Even if it is stale, Pokemon keeps exploring the Pokemon content deeper and it expands the Pokemon universe every new generation, so it's actually doing much better than NSMB.

That's true about Zelda. It is praised to heavens by Zelda fans, but nobody else seem to like the games anymore than the handful of people in the internet. Let's face it: the last four main Zelda games (non-remakes) have been pretty much shit. I bought Skyward Sword thinking it would return back to oldschool Zelda after Aonuma hinted it would, but the hell it didn't; it was the even worse than Twilight Princess that had you play tutorial for half of the game. Hyrule Warriors is a much better game, there you actually can kill enemies. Lots of them.