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The Wii had some serious games, but ultimately it was not a machine about “gaming”, but having fun with friends, your girlfriend, your kids, whatever. The Wii controller succeeded because it was “fun” not “serious”. That’s the key component that tablets/smartphones lack, as well as online multiplayer for that matter. In essense, Nintendo has to lay off marketing the Wii U as a console for families and kids specifically and instead market it as a “social gaming” console generally. I don’t think the Wii U is under threat from tablet and smartphones either, and it may be the stupidest argument I’ve ever heard. I think if they can get their marketing shit together they’ll realize that their blue ocean strategy is still effective. I think the dust is still settling after the whole Wii craze and Nintendo is figuring out which demographic groups have hopped off the bandwagon (your granny), anf which are willing to go for a second ride. They will come third in the console race (hopefully not a distant third), but they are by no means doomed. I think Nintendo will be okay, although I also think this generation is going to look a lot like the Gamecube days for Nintendo. I like them as separate franchises, and a little competition is seldom a bad thing. I certainly don’t want to see SASR combined with Mario Kart. That said, Sonic All-Stars Racing is the best thing they’ve got going for them right now, so maybe that particular team could do something with F-Zero. Hopefully this increase in sales doesn’t die out in the new year.Īs for F-Zero, I wouldn’t trust Sega with that franchise anymore seeing that so many of their titles are total shit these days. We have to take everything leading up to the holiday season as a whole.
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It isn’t going to compete unit for unit with the launch of PS4 and Xbox One right now. We have to remember that the Wii U was released a year ago. There was little additional incentive to buy a Wii U that day seeing that the price was still $299 at virtually all retailers. I would say that 3D World is indeed pushing a lot of consoles. Something that will re-establish Nintendo as a “must have” brand! Get Platinum to do Starfox and get Sega to do another F-Zero (GX was fucking amazing!)Īnd finally, get the teams that make Mario Kart and Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed together and let them make magic! Get them to do a new racing adventure game in the style of Diddy Kong Racing, but with characters from Mario and Sonic.Īnd last, but not least: Get Miyamoto to create something new! Not some casual crap, something for the core gamers. As long as the fans knows that it’s coming, they’ll be alright. It doesn’t matter if it takes two more years for it to come out after that. And they need them to do it fast enough to show a teaser for E3 at the latest. So they need to show the new Zelda game, and they need to get Retro working on Metroid. It was hinted around E3 that they didn’t because they wanted to focus on other things, And again around comic con when Aonuma stated that he didn’t have time to prepare anything, but it was ready to be shown.
We already know that they could have shown the new Wii U Zelda twice this year. There are a couple of incredible games announced already, but will it be enough? Nintendo has one move left. I love my Wii U, and I’m having a blast playing it, but I fear that it might be time to give up. There are enough games to justify buying the console, but appearently there aren’t any “must have” games according to the majority of gamers out there. But there appears to be no system sellers out at the moment. We’ve even had some really awesome ones like 3D World, Wonderful 101, Lego City and Pikmin 3. None of which have been bad games in my opinion. I’ve bought 15 games over the course of this first year. If they do not do something drastic soon this console will die a painful death. This whole “next title is a system seller” argument is old now. Hell, Super Mario 3D World is fucking brilliant, and even that doesn’t manage to sell systems. I love Nintendo to death, but every time a new game is coming out we think it’s going to be a system seller.