What if Nintendo Doesn't Comeback?

[curl-6]

oniyide said:

curl-6 said:

I can't recall which specific users made these claims, but there it wasn't just one or two, it's a debate I've had dozens of times over the last 5 years.

Wii's success was due to a shrewd reading of the market; they saw an untapped audience and successfully captured it. Then other companies moved in, the Blue Ocean became another Red Ocean, and as usual when this happens, Nintendo was too slow to respond.

Had they applied the same degree of insight to the Wii U, they would have seen that the market in 2012 was drastically different to 2006, and that what they were attempting would not work.

oh i believe you, but i dont think it was that many of them and they havent been spouting that in a while.

Yeah, but what were they gonna do? Its not like they couldve pulled another motion control thing and the actual tech of the Wii itself insured it was gonna get left to the wayside in alot of things. Im not trying to be hard, i really would like to know, cause i knew that it was always gonna turn out like this as soon as i picked up the wiimote and said "yup this is cool, but it wont last"

fair enough, but what would have been the alternative, stick with motion? cause that wouldnt have worked, straight red ocean against Sony/MS that didnt work even when Sony didnt really know what they were doing (PS1)

Honestly, I'm just a forum-going gamer, I can't say what would have been the best option for them, I just don't believe Wii U was the optimal course for them to have taken this generation. They fucked it up on so many levels (name, marketing, software, price, horsepower) it's crazy.