One man's thoughts on Nintendo, and offers some ideas on what could happen in the future.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
It seems as straight handheld and software would be the way to go.
I hope Nintendo continues to create home consoles & hardware forever. They are the only ones trying to do things differently. Some will succeed and some will fail, but without them bringing new ideas to the table each generation, gaming on consoles would not be as interesting and would get boring, fast. I don't care about RAM, Gigaflops, terabytes etc., so their games and consoles suit my tastes well.
As far as I remember, Sega's case was a succession of consoles failures, sales wise of course. Nintendo is having a really hard time with the Wii U, but still has chances to see (at least) some moderate success in the future. So one console is not going to destroy Nintendo (who knows how many times this has been said...)
The options the author gives are highly improbable with the current situation. Nintendo makes money from hardware, so losing the console division is a no-no for them.
Going software only is also against their way they make money, as they'd lose their hardware income. Also it would devalue Nintendo's games if they're on phone. For example: paying for 1ups in a Mario game... who really wants that?
As for selling themselves to Apple.. that is stretching it too much. Nintendo is economically fine as of now, so they have no need of selling themselves. This guy only wants to play games on his iPhone, it seems.
This is just the author's wishful thinking, with "business options" that are far away from the reality.
All of these "options" are doing nothing but retracting gameplay. The author seems to be thinking things from a business perspective rather than a gamers perspective.
Let me ask all of you, would you want to play a 3D mario platformer with touch controls exclusively? Exactly.
Not to mention he doesn't seem to think that the big hitters are coming out and that the Wii U' s sales momentum is rising.
It's been like this time and time again. SOFTWARE sells hardware, and Nintendo have repeatedly made the case for that generation after generation. No one else has Nintendo' s games. Suggesting that they go software only is anti competitive in terms of the console race.
I love ninty and I will always support them. :)