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Forums - Nintendo - Top 10 Nintendo Mistakes of the past five or six Years

Salnax on 03 October 2013
Salnax said:
DevilRising said:
So where are the similar threads for Sony and MS? Just curious.


As a blatant Nintendo fanboy, it wouldn't really be my place to make those threads. I could make them. And I'd totally deserve a ban for what I'd have to say.


To hell with it, the Top Sony and Microsoft mistakes of the early 7th gen through today, that I can ramble off at the moment.

Sony - Their Weirder Ad campaigns, Move, 599 US Dollars, PSP Go, No Rumble at Launch, The Cell, Vita, Getting Hacked, lack of Vita support, Losing Monster Hunter to the 3DS, losing Final Fantasy to the 360, The Last Guardian's countless delays, Gran Turismo PSP's similar delays, constantly taking risks with new IP's that don't necessarily pay off (The Puppeteer), abandoning series for no apparent reason (Jak and Daxter), abandoning the PSP like Nintendo did with the Wii, backwards compatibility from PS2 to latter PS3's, backwards compatibility from PS3 to PS4, having a 3GB OS for the PS4, etc.

Microsoft - Red Ring of Death, Xbox One price, garbage 360 skus, wasted oppurtunity with the Kinect from 2011 through 2013, backwards compatibility from original to 360, backwards compatibility from 360 to One, high cost of online services, imaginary currency, abandoning the biggest indie market yet assembled in the industry,  every other E3, general lack of "core" support even compared to Nintendo, abandoning the original Xbox early, having three OS's for the One, etc.



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Salnax on 03 October 2013
cbarroso09 said:

Top 4 Nintendo mistakes:

1. Create the DS, sell more than 150million and print money like real pimps,
2. Create the Wii, sell more than 100million and print money like real pimps.
3. Create the 3DS, stay to their guts, sell more than 30million, keep beasting it and print money like real pimps.
4. Create the Wii U...still to be seen (could be good or bad).

Note: lost money one year you say? They are building a new bigger headquarters, expanding their development teams and collaborations, they haven't fired anyone, they were developing the Wii U that is an HD console making it expensive.


They've done a good job these past few years. I wouldn't own a 3DS and Wii U at the moment if I didn't have faith in them. But that doesn't put them above criticism.



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jonathanalis on 03 October 2013

10. System Naming
Maybe..

9. Console Storage
agreed

8. Localizations
Agree, even thinking it wouldnt hit the majority of wii owners.

7. Not getting 3rd party games for the Wii U
People didnt buy the third party wii U games, dont know if nintendo is blamed for it. But GTAV would never skip wii U, if nintendo could make it apear in wii U, ok, is a nintendo mistake.

6. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
dont know.

5. The Great Wii drought of Late 2008 to Early 2009
dont know

4. The Wii's Online
agree

3. E3 2011 and 2012
agree

2. The 3DS Launch
dont know

1. The Wii U's First 8 Months
the fault was to delay games like pikmin, rayman legends and W101. If they were launched until at april, wii U would keep good sales. The games would get the boom that lego city, zumbi U and sonic racing transformed got, and would sell as well as them. Wii U would never be famous for "not having gamez". seeing the games sell well in wii U, thirdies would consider bring games to wii U.



cbarroso09 on 03 October 2013
Salnax said:
cbarroso09 said:

Top 4 Nintendo mistakes:

1. Create the DS, sell more than 150million and print money like real pimps,
2. Create the Wii, sell more than 100million and print money like real pimps.
3. Create the 3DS, stay to their guts, sell more than 30million, keep beasting it and print money like real pimps.
4. Create the Wii U...still to be seen (could be good or bad).

Note: lost money one year you say? They are building a new bigger headquarters, expanding their development teams and collaborations, they haven't fired anyone, they were developing the Wii U that is an HD console making it expensive.


They've done a good job these past few years. I wouldn't own a 3DS and Wii U at the moment if I didn't have faith in them. But that doesn't put them above criticism.


Very true. The thing is that those 3 points overshadow the 10 points  of the OP.