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Ck1x on 30 May 2016
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Intrinsic said:
zorg1000 said:

So Nintendo needs to either copy the others or "catch lightning in a bottle"? I think that term is used way too loosely.

The funnly thing about people saying going with cartridges would kill 3rd party support is that 3DS & Vita have significantly stronger 3rd party support than Wii U.

I'm beginning to think its more like some just dont like that phrase and less that the phrase actually doesnt apply to nintendos plight.

Look at it how you want to look at it. Call it copy, do what they are doing or just do good business. Call it catch lightning in a bottle or not but the facts are simple.

History has shown, and nintendo has 3 failed consoles to show for it, that first party alone is not enough to make a successful platform.

The onky exception to this was the Wii in the last four consoles they have released. And that was becauss of motion gaming and the game changer it became. 

Such a phenomenon is what is referred to as catching lightning in a bottle. To do something that isnt only different and no one thinks will work but that goes on to become more successful than anyone could have imagined. 

If nintendo are again ignoring all the the things sony and ms are doing or do to be successful, then it must mean they feel they are going to do something that not only differemtiates them but is better. Unless u feel they are in this to sell sub 20M consoles with the NX too. 

But to say catching lightening in a bottle is no different than saying Nintendo threw a hail Mary with the Wii and prayed for the best(which people seem to forget that the DS came first and inspired the Wii concept). The market and software that they had out of the gate proved that they knew it was going to be successful and how the system inspired them to make games. The same can't be said for the WiiU, it not only had horrible marketing but the software really didn't use the system to its potential until late in the systems life. Also Nintendo has had a number of consoles that were deemed sells failures by them because they didn't meet or surpass the previous generation of Nintendo console, but went on to being extremely profitable for the company overall. The GC and WiiU are probably the worst offenders of being categorized as such, because the hardware sells don't match up to the amount of money Nintendo put into making the consoles.