Re:My Prescription for Nintendo
by vinceguidry on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:21AM
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> Their "few bad years" started in 1996. The Wii was a temporary blip and now things are back on the course that started nearly two decades ago.
This gif tells a different story.
Nice chart. Here's a similar one: http://mattfedder.com/img/disco_sales.png
Re:My Prescription for Nintendo
by vinceguidry on Sunday January 26, 2014 @01:43PM
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It doesn't seem to be worth arguing with you so I'll just shut up now.
When a "temporary blip" sells a hundred million consoles, downplaying it looks totally clueless.
Tell me how the Wii U is doing. Is it building on the "success" of the Wii? Was the Wii's success sustainable?
The answer to these questions is no. The Wii got a lot of people who would probably never buy a video game console to buy one. But where are they now? How many are shoved under a TV in the spare bedroom at someone's grandparents' house? Why haven't they bought a Wii U yet?
It's because it was a blip. It wasn't sustainable.
The Wii U is a complete failure. At some point very soon, Pokemon won't be enough to keep selling the DS when there's so much many compelling reasons to just buy an iPod touch or iPad.
Nintendo can still make great games, but pretty soon they're going to be making great games for systems that nobody wants because the rest of the games on those systems are years-late ports or just total shovelware garbage.
I couldn't imagine playing Super Mario World on a Genesis, but it wasn't the name on the console that made that game great. There's zero chance I will ever buy a Wii U, but I will probably buy an Xbox One or PS4 at some point in the next two years—once the game libraries for those systems improve. I'd love for Mario or Zelda to show up and help me make that decision.