| Soundwave said: The Wii killed itself because it was foundationally rooted in fad gaming trends, the sales were already declining by 2010 and in Japan it never really was that big of a hit to begin with (PSP easily outsold it, PS3 got close after a disastrous start) I don't think Japan ever really bought the hype on the system. MS and Sony having their own motion gaming controllers by 2010 just kinda cemented it. You need to just get over that one already. You shouldn't have to release monster hits for a console every 3 months in its 5th year just to keep it from drowning to death and they did get a new Zelda even in 2011. You should by that point have hundreds (thousands?) of game titles along with several evergreens. It faded because the people were getting bored of the concept. And sure I'm glad the Wii died. Who the fuck would want to play Breath of the Wild or Mario 3D World on Wii's shitty hardware? Without graduating forward in hardware you'd be playing shittier versions of those games. The jump to HD gaming has been great for Nintendo's IP, so will the jump to a proper 4K console with a generational hardware leap. Why you view that as some kind of dreadful thing is just sort of laughable to me. Oh noez, you have to play better versions of games that might not even be possible on older hardware. The horror of it all. |
And there it is. It's all about your personal desire to have more powerful Nintendo hardware, regardless of what it means for their business.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
