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Ck1x on 30 May 2016
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Intrinsic said:
Ck1x said:

I noticed some people are pretty much arguing against possibilities when we know next to nothing about the NX... I also see that many like to conclude for Nintendo to be successful everything is about catching lightening in a bottle. Which is such a disservice to a company that's not only been around for a long time but very profitable as well, even before the Wii and DS came along. Nintendo hasn't had close to equal 3rd party support since maybe the GC days and 3rd party companies weren't what made both the DS and Wii successful, it was all Nintendo coming up with something clever...

Lets make something clear.....

Good first party games alone is not enough to make a successful platform. Nintendo should kjow that very well from the N64, GC and the WiiU. Cause nintendo does have some of the best first party games out there. 

So nintendo has two options.

Get third party support that is at least on par with Sony and MS which also means having hardware that is at least as powerful as theirs with similar features or,

Catch lightning in a bottle (again) as they did with the wii and come up with something that is so different and unique to them that everyone wants a piece of it and can only be had on their platform. They tried that with the WiiU with its controller but failed. 

Its really not complicated, if you arent directly pound for pound competing with the HD twins, then you have to be different enough to succeed withoit most of the things that makes them successful.

As I've stated it wasn't 3rd party software that made the Wii or DS a massive success, it was Nintendo's 1st party games that you seem so easy to dismiss. It's never been an issue about whether Nintendo software will sell, it's about whether the software and hardware provide something unique and different from the other console manufacturers. The term catching lightening in a bottle is just disrespectful to a company that's been around for so long. Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy, do we say that they catch lightening in a bottle with every iPhone and iPad they release? Nintendo is a company that has never made any real efforts to capitalize on the branding of their IP, which they are probably only 2nd to Disney when it comes to worldwide character brand recognition. But people seem to talk as if they will always be relegated to a boutique software maker if they don't fork over all their cash to secure 3rd party games. Out of the gate no one ever looked at the WiiU in the same light as they did the Wii. So it's not about Nintendo catching lightening in a bottle, it's about them creating hardware that for its price has value and the ability to inspire their developers to create amazing games that are unique to that hardware. There are many Nintendo fans that never wanted a WiiU because it didn't feel like that much of a jump from the initial Wii console. Most just chose to buy a 3ds instead and played all of their favorite Nintendo games on that instead.