| Fight-the-Streets said: Nintendo Wii U was a failure - get ower it! It's rediculous if people claim to have a right as Nintendo Wii U-owners that "their" console has to be supported for x-years and they have the right for certain exclusives. A bad product has always its backlashes, that's unavoidable. Nintendo always want to do something different, something unique. They're innovative. Such a philosophy bears risks but thank God they take it. The games industry would be so much more boring without Nintendo! People always point at Sega and their failure in not supporting their consoles and add-ons long enough and warn now that Nintendo will fall likewise if they stop supporting the Nintendo Wii U after NX release in Q4 2016. This is a stupid comparison because Sega did so many mistakes in a row: 32X failed, oh! let's bring CD, failure, oh! let's bring Saturn, failure, oh! then let's bring Dreamcast asap, oh! failure again and oh! we don't have any money on the banks left, let's go 3rd party and fail again but at least we will survive somehow. The amount of failure Sega did is really for the records and should be studied in any business school to learn how not to do business. |
If Nintendo releases a console they have the responsability for a certain level of support. This includes an exclusive Zelda, since every single Nintendo console before it, got one. If they aren't willing to bleed billions when making a big mistake then they should be more careful when taking risks.
Oh and just because a company makes risks does not mean that they can be forgiven when they make such a piece of crap like the Wii U. The Wii U is as least as big of a failure as everything bad Sega did, combined. It's almost as bad as the Virtual Boy. Not one of Sega's failures was as bad as the Wii U. The management was idiotic, yes, but nothing as bad as whoever was involved in the development of the Wii U. The Gamepad should have been ditched on 2009 when the iPad was revealed, period. Everybody knew the gimmick was stupid the moment the Wii U was released. It was that bad. They should have made a Wii with PS4 specs instead. If Nintendo doesn't know when a gimmick is just plain stupid then they should just copy Sony and Microsoft (properly) and stop trying to be different.
