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bigtakilla on 17 March 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
Wyrdness said:

360 arrived 4 years into its predecessors life in the middle of a gen and was announced 3 years into the gen, the PS2 was still in full swing and strongest.

I'm not assuming anything that's what you're doing here, I'm telling you it's better that they use their cards more strategically, Zelda and LM at launch, Pikmin 4 following the launch window,  another title for Spring and summer then 3D Mario for Q4 for example. This way momentum is maintained and far better than your big bang approach, only way I can see them having a load of games post launch with a big holiday title at the end of the launch year if they launch with Zelda and Mario is if the is a shared library than yes they can launch with those two although I doubt they will even then as the portable side has bigger movers than Mario in games like Pokemon so on.

PS2 was launched at 2000, Xbox 360 was launched in 2005, Wii and PS3 were launched just one year later in 2006. So I really don't see how you can claim Xbox 360 arrived in middle of generation when arrived just one year before other consoles of that gen, PS3/Wii.

I dont agree, IMO much better is to have Zelda and Mario 3D at launch, Pikmin following launch window, LM around march....and at end for Q4 we could have Mario Kart or some other big title. So we would have big bang approach and momentum. I also count on shared library of unified platform.

I would also say using a lot of their biggest titles up front COULD give it a fairly large install base (at least for a launch year), which may attract third party developers. Third parties were dabbling with the Wii U until the sales dropped off a cliff within the first year (granted none of the third party games were all that great compared to their counter parts when talking about mulitplats when talking about most of them) and then third party couldn't jump ship fast enough. 

If they could get around 12 million out of the gate first year it would make the platform a LOT more attractive to developers than the 6 it wound up with, most of which were sold during it's release.