elektranine said:
Yes let's look at the Wii, let's look at the Wii: The was released and sold well for a period of time and then didn't sell nearly as well. There was a mass hysteria surrounding the Wii propelled by the media, such as CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, etc, promoting it as a "must have" device. Basically it was cool to own one. Many non-gamers bought this device just because their friends had ones. Nintendo reported alarming statistics such as less than 40% of Wiis were ever connected to the internet and very low software attach rates. This obviously didn't happen with the Wii U and almost certainly won't happen with the NX either. Besides I don't think anybody wants another Wii with its low attach rates it failed to attract much hardcore games from developers and what was on there were poorly designed motion controls ala 3rd party shovelware.
Besides the main premise of this thread is to discuss the R&D costs of the NX. Many say the NX is supposed to be more powerful than the PS4 but with such low R&D Costa it likely will not. See my above post on how people are overstating Nintendo's true console R&D costs. |
Dude the Wiis attach rate is actually higjet than the wii u.
Also the ps4 came out in 2013. Im sure Nintendo doesnt need to spend that much to make a console more powerful.
