Iwata it's easy:
- Stop building cheap/underpowered consoles. Make a competitive console.
- Stop charging so much for said machine. Wii U deluxe was $350 up until recently, yet the PS4 is infinitely more powerful (and has a bigger hdd) all for $50 more? Lol....
Honestly at this point, I really start to question if this is the solution. I said this in another thread, but consider this.
Let's say Nintendo comes out with a console that is superior to PS4 (and to do this, it cost them $399). The superior specs, and it being the easiest console to develop for, WOULD make some devs take notice. But it wouldn't make them jump over, because the demographics isn't there. I truly believe that if a superior version of a third party AAA title was on a Nintendo console, it would still sell far less than it would on X1 + PS4.
The trick would be, to finally bring over those consumers that buy AAA third party titles throughout the year (the blockbusters etc.). But because there isn't AAA third party titles to begin with on it (because again, keep in mind this console just launched, and Nintendo has shown a huge demographic issue in the past), then why would these consumers buy a Nintendo console, when the majority of the games they buy in a given year is on X1 and PS4 (which they already own, or will choose over this new super Nintendo console, because there are already those AAA third party titles on those systems).
To me, it's a cyclical cycle. Consumers won't buy it because it doesn't have the titles they want. And those devs wont make games for it because, it doesn't have the consumer base to buy it. It's like the Vita's situation right now (no games, so people won't buy it. Game's aren't being made, because not enough people own the Vita). Note: the Vita does have games, but you get my overall point.
I love Nintendo, and hope I'm wrong. But I'm starting to really believe that this is just an issue, of an overall market no longer wanting their hardware products. I still view the Wii as a fluke. And strongly believe that the Wii U is just a continued downward trajectory from N64 to Gamecube. As much as I hate saying this, I'm starting to wonder if Nintendo's only hope, is finding a new way to revolutionize and change how we play games. I hate saying that, because often this is gimmicky. But seriously, unless they come up with something that seems fresh and gets average consumers flocking to try it, I wonder if just releasing another console with high specs will do anything at all.
