DefectiveReject said:
Yes because being the ONLY manufacturer to make cash and profit in each generation it has been in, is the sign of a joke company??
Did you know the N64 and GC sold FAAAAAAAR less than the SNES and NES
Did you know they didn't kill Nintendo
Did you know Nintendo still made profit on them despite being/having low sales comparatively.
So i think sales wise it goes
Wii > NES > SNES > N64 > GC.
They are still here, making profit. They know what to do.
And as of yet we know absolutely nothing about what the WiiU will have at launch.
If you think it'll be a 3DS level launch you'll be as mistaken as a shitty speculative investor.
The clever thing with Nintendo is they don't put all their money on the table with each console. They play middle ground and if it fails it doesn't cost them too much. But as of yet aside from the VirtualBoy. Nothing has failed.
I never said Nintendo would die. And right now they're losing money on the 3DS are they going to lose money on the Wii-U at launch too? I'm not saying there's no place for Nintendo at all but they're a public company and the public demands that they constantly grow, not stagnate and not retreat. I have absolutely no doubt that Nintendo could survive just fine on nothing but the GC's marketshare and selling just their own games, sure the amount of releases would probably slow as they shed a developer or two but Nintendo would survive and there'd be new mario's and Zelda's and the fans could line up every couple of years and buy the next console as the rest of the world walks by wondering what the fuck those guys are lining up for. I never said or meant to imply that Nintendo would die.
However, up until about this point the home gaming industry has been pretty straightforward, didn't have on-line multiplayer, hardware backwards compatibility, digital releases along with a host of other things going on right now, it was essentially release a box with games on it and profit. To a degree that will always be true, what will change will be the amount of people willing to buy a dedicated box when there are now so many things just as capable as your box that also offer other features.
I also believe that the Wii-U, again, will be fine this generation but that it will fail to live up to the Wii, which in investor's eyes will be a total failure. From a gamer's perspective Nintendo will continue to make Nintendo games for it and they will be good so it will not be a total failure in our eyes but I think that it will again fail to attract the hardcore and I think it will attract far less casuals than the Wii did before it. Unless Nintendo does a complete 180, delivers a great online experience and store along with totally revamping the way it does business between people wanting to put stuff on the store it will just be another sour footnote in their history as a whole despite keeping the core Nintendo fans happy and will just make it that much harder for Nintendo to get more of the casual market and hardcore the next time around.
DefectiveReject said:
Didn't say they need do nothing at all.
I said they know what they need to do and are doing it. Check it.
And I didn't say they were doing nothing I said they were doing nothing they needed to do and in fact were doing the opposite! And you can check that!