Qazwsxedc wrote:Death's Head wrote:You shush Q, people don't want to read that and want to live in their Super Mario World where Nintendo continue to do their thing.
Sorry... I wasn't trying to burst any bubbles. I'll go back to my corner now...
This is a pretty weird couple of posts, I don't think anyone is offended by people saying they don't like Nintendo.
I do disagree though, I think trying to appeal to the "COD/FIFA" crowd would be a disaster after going on for two decades of sub-par third party support. That demographic can't remember the last time a Nintendo console had passable third-party support (the N64) let alone
good third-party support (the SNES). They're
never going to buy the NX as their primary console. It could be a 6000 fps photorealistic quantum supercomputer for £100 and 17 year old boys would still call it "gay."
The market for Nintendo consoles likes their excellent first-party games, like
Mario and
Zelda; their equally excellent second-party games, like
Pokemon and
Fire Emblem (Aside: I've always found the definition of second-party kind of awkward. Do Intelligent Systems count? I think they do, but they are still basically just part of Nintendo...); and will go for a certain kind of third party game, like
Monster Hunter or
Bravely Default. (They could improve, of course, but they aren't actually bad at attracting
that kind of third-party game.) A single platform succeeding both the 3DS and Wii U, and achieving a critical density of those games particularly around the launch period and the first year, would do OK. Everyone who owns a Wii U or a 3DS would pick one up, and I think it would attract back some of the GameCube and GBA old guard who might have given the last generation or two a miss.
The measure of success for Nintendo from now on shouldn't be competing with Sony and Microsoft on their own terms. It should be whether they cultivate a profitable ecosystem for their own kind of games, that allows them to continue producing high-quality content for their fans that like "Nintendo-y" stuff at a rate and density that excites and hopefully grows that userbase.