ps4tw said:
Seems to be selling well if preorders are anything to go by - if Nintendo wait until PSVR is released and they sit back for a year without doing anything, they'd lose precious time. Plus, what do you think Nintendo should do with its next console? |
you realize that the amount of VR preorders combined are nothing next to a console, even recent Nintendo consoles right? people are claiming that the VR preorders are good because they have nothing to compare them too
absurd thread though. Nintendo is still extremely relevant which is why people like you constantly make threads discussing them and making projections and predictions.
if you Google video games related to Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft, there generally will be more Nintendo news popping up than anything else. they are extremely relevant and have tons of people interested in their future.
There is a big difference between people not being thrilled about their current system offerings and them not being relevant. I'm a huge Nintendo fan and have owned practically every system they've ever released but I don't like a lot what they do now (well I like the 3DS to some degree).
Nintendo will stay massively relevant as long as they hold their powerful IPS/characters, are releasing systems, and have lots of money in the bank to market themselves and release content. All still remain true now.
Again, there's a reason that despite poor recent home console sales Nintendo is still constantly being discussed.
on specific topic though something like Virtual Reality is literally the LAST thing Nintendo needs to get involved with at this point. All they've done for the past decade has been jumping to one gimmick to the next. Sometimes its a home run, sometimes its a miss, but they've already been doing things in similar vain and their fanbase as well as casual fans are fairly tired of it.
Nintendo has the money and they have the games at this point. All they need to do is go back to REGULAR hardcore gaming. Like the Gamecube (obviously without a small disk or strange disk format holding them back) in terms of a good spec system with a solid regular controller.
IF they release a standard system with solid specs, some level of backwards compatibility, a traditional controller- it will sell well. Bear in mind Nintendo has not done this on the home console segment in a few generations. They need to go back to it. Release a traditional system with something like these three titles: a new Mario Galaxy, a Pokemon game, and some new IP (Splatoon? a horror game? another Bayonetta?) and the system will sell like hotcakes
I'm telling you, literally all Nintendo needs to do is go back to the basics with good specs and release their next home console with a highly in demand game (Mario Galaxy sequel or Pokemon Open World or something) and it will fly off the shelves. Hell either one of those games would have made the Wii U do better despite the poor decisions made for its hardware/accessories
