| SonytendoAmiibo said: I lived through the SEGA CD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast fiasco. Having an opinion of that time is not uninformed. It's not just what SEGA did dropping the Dreamcast so fast. It's dropping all of these failed systems without supporting the people who bought them. The parallels I see to Nintendo dropping support for Wii U so quickly are here. Look at the Game Boy Advanced. As soon as the DS system took off like a rocket Nintendo dropped the GBA so fast it made my head spin. Nintendo HAS stopped working on Wii U games. Wii U owners will be left high and dry. |
They did drop support for the Game Boy Advance sooner than they would have usually but mainly because the DS took off so much. They did release the Game Boy Micro after the DS was released but that was mainly a swang song. I actually eventually got the 20th Anniversary Edition Game Boy Micro which I am proud to own. Wikipedia has GBA for NA from June 11, 2001 - 2008. The support for the GBA in the final years was almost nonexistent. I would consider the GBA had at least 4 good years for it which seems terrible when comparing it to the GB but not too bad when compared to the GBC which was from Nov 18, 1998 - May 30, 2003.
The Wii U seems like it will have about 4 years of decent support (from Nintendo). I believe it just looks worse compared to the GC because at least the GC had decent third party support (and lasted 6 years) . How long do you expect them to hang onto a sinking ship for? I see the Wii U being discontinued in 2017 or early 2018.
I agree with you that dropping support isn't good but I see the situations between Sega and Nintendo a little differently. You can draw some parallels but I think Nintendo will try to stay with the 5+ years of support for their home console systems. Sorry to question your history because it seems like you were semi burned by Sega's last few systems.
