| padib said: Yes and No. Yes, they needed to move on, No the Wii still had a lot of potential. What they needed was a much, MUCH better transition. |
Transitions are far, far, far, far, FAR (did I mention FAR?) more important than late gen support basically.
No one gives a shit what your previous system's late gen was like if your next system does great, particularly if it has a great launch.
The 1st year of a new console is really actually 90% of where a game exec should be earning their money for. That's what makes or breaks a company in many cases and that should always take way higher priority than "yeah but what did you do for year 5/6 of your previous console".
In virtually all modern hardware you can tell by the system's 1st anniversary whether or not the system is going to have a good life cycle, a bad one, or an up/down one.
Even the DS, which had somewhat sluggish first 4-5 months, by Nov/Dec 2005 (its first birthday) you could clearly see the where the system was going. Killing the GBA off was a good call.
If you're really actually a fan of any of these console brands anyway, bitching and moaning about that is stupid. What are you crying about you know you are going to buy the next system whatever it is no matter what because you can't play future franchise installments anywhere else.
Being stuck with the GBA until 2006 is not a good thing, and that's not anything specific even to just GBA/DS, that goes for any hardware. There's no hardware transition where the games didn't get better due to better technology. There's no one here who would rather play Zelda III on the NES instead of the SNES, or Mario 64 on a SNES Super FX chip (holy fuck would that be terrible), or Metroid Prime on an N64 (ugh), or Splatoon on the Wii, etc. etc. etc.
So people arguing so hard to have more games on inferior hardware is always a bit of a laugh because they're essentially arguing for shittier games. Even if the Wii U was filled to the brim with dumb design decisions on Nintendo's part, there's no Wii U game that would be better off on the Wii, not NSMBU, not DKC: TF, not Splatoon, not Mario Kart 8, not Pikmin 3.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 10 August 2020
