Nintendo - Invest some damn money into software development. I get that Nintendo likes being a small company; it's part of their corporate culture to micromanage everything, but you're not going anywhere in this business without games. A modest investment into a 200-person studio in the US and another 170-person studio in Europe would be enough to probably ensure at least a new big game for them in most years. I'm not asking for something unrealistic like hiring 2000 new people or something crazy like that which Nintendo would never do. This should have been done during the Wii/DS era 9-10 years ago when they were swimming in money.

Microsoft - Insist on hardware superiority no matter what. No matter what hardware Sony has, MS' should be better. Spend a little more if need be, MS is not hurting for cash. Reason being is MS must understand they are the defacto challenger, and as such they need to outdo what Sony is doing, not just be content with the status quo or even be below (no, no). The first XBox was better than the PS2, the 360 even got better multiplats a lot of the time, every XBox must be better, the spec choice on the XBox One was a mistake.

More investment in 1st/2nd party titles is needed too because Halo is not the top 5 industry franchise any longer, it's old, time to spend some money and create something new. And also while multiplat Minecraft is ok, they should take more advantage of Minecraft on XBox platforms by having exclusive content available for longer. XBox should have the best version of Minecraft period.

Sony - They are the market leader, so I think they are kinda exempt from too much criticism.

As for Nintendo, there are a lot of things that they can do to improve :/

Veknoid_Outcast said: Nintendo: ditch Amiibo and move away from DLC, season passes, and any kind of micro-transactions in general. Bring in more talent and trust them to make games without micromanaging them. Make meaningful partnerships with third-party studios but don't waste a lot of money and resources competing with high-end tech on the market. PLAN AHEAD. Take advantage of dormant IPs, either by developing new games internally or farming them out to trustworthy independent studios. Create hardware with an attractive price point. If you must embrace a gimmick, pick one that 1) doesn't break the bank and that 2) opens up new, attractive gameplay possibilities. Sony: end the online multiplayer paywall. Move away from cinematic action games. Go back in time and don't close Liverpool. Invest in more modestly-powered hardware. Tell us what the hell happened with The Last Guardian. Fix those sticks on the DualShock 4. Throw Vita owners a bone. Give us backward compatibility.  Microsoft: if Microsoft actually wants to remain in the console space, then it can do a number of things. End the online multiplayer paywall. Backward compatibility is great - stay the course. Build up more internal studios with competent developers. Ditch 343 and give Halo to a better studio. Don't kill Fable. Invite in more RPG developers, or build some in house. Stop wasting money buying exclusive/timed third-party content. Make more of your games exclusive. Invest in more modestly-powered hardware. Do something good with the mountain of Rare IPs you own.

They do those better than any company though

Veknoid_Outcast said: Nintendo: ditch Amiibo and move away from DLC, season passes, and any kind of micro-transactions in general. Bring in more talent and trust them to make games without micromanaging them. Make meaningful partnerships with third-party studios but don't waste a lot of money and resources competing with high-end tech on the market. PLAN AHEAD. Take advantage of dormant IPs, either by developing new games internally or farming them out to trustworthy independent studios. Create hardware with an attractive price point. If you must embrace a gimmick, pick one that 1) doesn't break the bank and that 2) opens up new, attractive gameplay possibilities. Sony: end the online multiplayer paywall. Move away from cinematic action games. Go back in time and don't close Liverpool. Invest in more modestly-powered hardware. Tell us what the hell happened with The Last Guardian. Fix those sticks on the DualShock 4. Throw Vita owners a bone. Give us backward compatibility.  Microsoft: if Microsoft actually wants to remain in the console space, then it can do a number of things. End the online multiplayer paywall. Backward compatibility is great - stay the course. Build up more internal studios with competent developers. Ditch 343 and give Halo to a better studio. Don't kill Fable. Invite in more RPG developers, or build some in house. Stop wasting money buying exclusive/timed third-party content. Make more of your games exclusive. Invest in more modestly-powered hardware. Do something good with the mountain of Rare IPs you own.

I would have to say I agree with all 3, even more so what you said about MS. =)

I think the only thing I would add to Sony is, allow us to change our PSN ID.

For Sony: You're doing fine, maybe introduce some more Japanese IPs to help get Japan back into console gaming. Reintroduce the old IP's, you're sitting on a goldmine.  Get some better Plus games for that people that play them.

For Microsoft: Why are you still in the console business? You've been unprofitable the entire time. Not tryna throw shade, but you didn't take over the living room with the Kinect, you ruined Rare and flopped everywhere outside of NA. Why are you still here? I know there's no money in console hardware so no one wants to buy Xbox, but why do keep taking billions in losses per year? LOL. Keep doing your thing I honestly have no advice for you

For Nintendo: CONSOLES ARE FOR GAMERS AND DEVS, NOT FOR SELF SERVICE. Get 3rd party support. Do not innovate if that means the console is going to suffer (bad 3rd party, bad online, no hard drive, overpriced hardware like the gamepad, bad overall console value, ect.) You are not the best current day dev, you arguably have never been seeing as Square was outdoing you during your best console (SNES), meaning the best SNES games were 3rd party, so make the NX 3rd party friendly.  Get some better marketing too. Also like my Sony suggestion, reintroduce IP's. Where's my Advance Wars, Metroid and F-Zero (Hopefully with no input from Miyamoto)?

Call me crazy, but I think Nintendo, intentionally or not, had the right idea about graphics. Even though they're behind, there's only so far Sony/MS and any other company can go before they hit a plateau. When Nintendo's iconic characters get there last, they will have the last set of graphically impressive games from franchises people wanted to see in as high of graphic proficiency as possible.

AsGryffynn said: Ka-pi96 said: Microsoft: Sell Xbox. Set up the Windows Store as a proper competitor to Steam and go mostly PC, with any games that would work on consoles released as a multiplat. Nintendo: Buy Xbox. imo Nintendo are complete shit at making consoles. So by buying out a series of consoles that are already good and not adding any more anti-consumer policies to them they could finally have some success with decent consoles. That's all they'd really need to do. Buy Xbox and keep it running as it is now, except destory those 'future evil plan' files that Microsoft have been working on, and all will be good. Sony: They need to make their own JRPG franchise. Ideally they'd take a hat filled with money over to Sakaguchi and get him to create it (and many sequels). Worst idea ever. The day Microsoft no longer makes consoles is the day I leave gaming...    As for Sony, Sakaguchi spat on their drink and left the room when they tried to do that...

I wish MS would sell Xbox, but there's no money in hardware manufacturing and the Xbox Brand is unporfitable, so no one is trying to buy an unprofitable division where profit is made by paid online over the hardware itself.  Paid online isn't going anywhere seeing as Sony struggled to pull a profit off their gaming division without it.  There is seldom profit in hardware manufacturing.  Ever hear Nintendo fanboys brag about the GC making more of a profit than the PS2?

Why not switch to PC and play the real Microsoft platform if they left?  Not trolling, but Microsoft has never been superb in terms of gaming, it's just that Sony was awful at the begining of last gen.  MS still has duds in terms of their Windows 10 Store/Games for Windows Live, they had horrible harware reliability, ect.

Nintendo needs to consolidate their software output to one platform. They're stretched thin this year between 3ds, WiiU, and NX if Kimishima's claims are to be believed.

Thankfully, that looks like the direction they're heading in with the NX.

Nintendo needs to buy and create more studios, they are way too old to be as small as they are and their software output this gen suffered because of it. Seriously why don't they own platinum yet or mistwalker or shin'en or wayforward or playtonic or yacht club, why haven't they hired Yuki naka yet he could really use a good publisher and a decent budget. Why didn't they buy lionsgate or ready at dawn or atlus. They just need to expand and quickly 

Microsoft could use more 1st and 2nd party ip. Timed exclusives don't count or matter they need more series that are exclusives to Xbox. Oh and ffs bring back rare or at least their IPs 

Sony needs to stop ignoring old ip and they seems to have a problem with devs that think they're too good or mature to work on series that made the ps1 and 2 eras great. If naughty dog and sucker punch and all the rest don't want to bring back jak, sly, midevil, ape escape ect then I'm sure they can find some talented devs that would love to work on those ip. Also more jrpgs

Microsoft: make some cool exclusives that aren't dudebro games (shooters/action or sport)

Sony: get a platformer mascot again. Either Crash, Spyro or Jak. Preferably Spyro. Those games were the closest I think we've ever had to someone de-throning Mario.

Nintendo: more or less fine on 1st party software. Need more third parties and that bigger audience.