Does Nintendo require VR/AR to remain relevant...?

[ps4tw]

zorg1000 said:

ps4tw said:

Nintendo is going to struggle to have a successful console if they do not do something unique and appealing to most gamers. 

Now if they more went down a route of games like Silent Hill, the Ico series and Dark Souls, those are games that bridge the West/Asian divide, but it'll be a cold day in hell before Nintendo adopts a more mature mainstream image. 

How is VR/AR unique if Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, Google, Facebook and others are already heavily invested in it? Isnt doing what everyone else is doing the exact opposite of unique?

Games like Silent Hill, Ico & Dark Souls are going to help them immensely? Not sure if you realize this but Nintendo funded Fatal Frame, Devil's Third & Bayonetta 2, they have invested in mature titles.

Well Microsft's offering is enterprise only, Samsung and Google's are low end, and no one knows about Apple's offering. Implementation is key - considering it's brand new tech, I'm sure they can find a way to make it unique. 

Fatal Frame is fine, but Devil's Third and Bayonetta have not translated well into the western market - they have too many traditional Japanese game aspects such as characters that walk around half naked and still a fixation on Japanese style and design. While Devil's Third was hammered in reviews, the mechanics behind Bayonetta are brilliant, but most people will take a 3 second look at playing a game where the main character is an annorexic woman with bolt-on tits running around in skin-tight PVC and instantly dismiss it. Which is entirely fair. Nintendo needs to grow up and realise mature is more than half-naked characters and gore, a transition the Metal Gear series has mostly managed to do.