BraLoD said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Wait. Are you suggesting Nintendo somehow orchestrated the failure of WiiU in order to justify re-selling its games on another system?
That doesn't make any sense. Nintendo poured a lot of money into R&D for the WiiU, and released a lot of games that took advantage of its unique asymmetrical interface. It didn't plan for the WiiU to fail.
When WiiU's grisly fate became clear, Nintendo moved on with a successor system that was more accessible, versatile, and attractive to consumers. Enhanced ports and deluxe editions followed. Why would Nintendo throw good money after bad, and continue to manufacture a system no one wanted?
Why would you assume Sony gave up on Vita out of financial necessity and Nintendo gave up on WiiU because of more nefarious reasons?
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No I'm not.
I'm saying that once they realized it failed they choose to screw the few buyers they had by dropping another system to resell those games, not to move foward.
The fact they held Zelda away from Wii U onwers until the Switch was ready was also another big showing.
If you take the PS3 as the comparision, when Sony was struggling they did all the possible to make the PS3 best, they lowered massively its price and focused it completely on games and bringing the most possible content to it, and didn't just released the PS4 in 2010.
Meanwhile Sony screwed the Vita owners as well, but instead of making another system to resell the Vita core games, they simply ported it, althought still letting Vita owners to eat dust.
The point is that both did wrong to its consumers, but Nintendo actually cut the Wii U short to resell it.
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BraLoD, those are two dramatically different scenarios. By March 31, 2008, PS3 had sold almost 13 million units —nearly as many as WiiU's lifetime sales. By March 2010, PS3 had sold about 33 million units, which was 86% of the Xbox 360's 39 million (a system that had one year head start). Sony had compelling reasons to stick with PS3. Nintendo had none with WiiU, short of insulting the 14 million folks who bought one.
I think you're being unfairly distrustful of Nintendo here. They made a dud, and they decided to move on. Remember: Nintendo is a video game company only; it doesn't have other revenue streams like Sony and Microsoft. A failure like WiiU can be severly damaging to its operating budget.
