| bunchanumbers said: What they changed with Wii U was beneficial though. The analog sticks are much more durable than slide pads. And its not like responding to the fans is a bad thing. It saved the PS3 from launching with the Batarang. It also reversed the Mattrick always on DRM policy for Xbox One. They also made MS back off from the Kinect which was driving up the price of the console. |
The analogue sticks were always going to happen as feedback was already there from the 3DS and R&D, the PS3 controller was quickly put together because MS forced the 7th gen to happen, the result was Sony had to respond with something otherwise 360 would have an unchallenged headstart, the other things you mentioned aren't even hardware revisions either which defeats your whole point.
Wii U itself is a response from fans in their demand to be more catered to instead of the broad approach and it never took off because this was Nintendo following the tune of others and not themselves.
If you look at the Wii they went for a mass affordable platform driven by a concept, when it was shown many didn't like it and no changes were made up to launch, it became successful due to them doing their own thing regardless of what people were saying, NX seems to be going the same route of them being fully commited to it. The only way for Nintendo to be successful is to do things their own way not the way people think they should do things.
