curl-6 said:
mZuzek said: The worst part about this whole situation is probably having to accept that the NX is going to be awesome... it's inevitable given how much Nintendo's been holding back for 2 entire years before its release.
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Remember when we thought that about Wii U after two years of nothing for Wii, only for it to immediately fall into a game drought?
Never underestimate Nintendo's ability to fuck things up.
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Or their ability to do amazing things :P
That's they're biggest problem right now. They have a case of corporate dissociative identity disorder. They'll be awesome one moment (2014 E3, Smash, Kart, Bayo 2, Hyrule Warriors, XCX) and then timid or stupid the next (2015 E3, Amiibo Festival, funding Devil's Third, etc). That inconsistency and their indecisiveness in terms of whether to market aggressively one way or the other has consistently undermined every chance they've had for success this gen. What they need is to realize that the console industry is the high rollers table, not the penny slots. They can't be half in, half out. Lack of boldness, lack of commitment all communicates lack of confidence. And no one will be confident in your product if you aren't (neither consumers nor third parties). And it doesn't help output either.
But then that's why I never buy consoles at launch and only when I feel they have what I want as a product. Nintendo is a game company, end of story as far as I am concerned as a customer. They make games I enjoy enough to justify purchasing their platforms, I'll buy. Not to say I won't criticize bad marketing and other poor practices, but as long as the product itself is to my satisfaction I really don't care.