Legend of Zelda- Twilight Princess HD (Wii U)

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Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv

Honestly the longer they can hold out, and closer they can release near the PS5/XboxTwo (well as long as their hardware is competitive to those) the better IMHO.

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I could not disagree with this more. You just said in your earlier post that they need to compete for the general gamer demographic and not just rely on Nintendo fans. In order to do that, they need to take advantage of the mid-generation timing. The Wii U launched close to the PS4 and One, and look what happened, despite those two not even having any games.

You're right about their typical announcement to release timeline. I'm not predicting that we've seen the last of the big Wii U and 3DS announcements because it's too late. I'm just thinking/hoping they're on a more aggressive timeline with the NX.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

It would be phenomenally stupid not to wait until after the holidays to assess what's going on with the numbers before jumping full-on into the next thing.

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This is obviously true, though development decisions have to have already been made at least in some cases.

edit: Actually, that may be how we get a hint about what the NX is replacing. If either the Wii U OR 3DS see its software dry up, we'll know. I still think it's going to be both.

I think there's too much insistence from the "Gamers" or whatever that NX comes out, because, "Nintendo can't sell Wii U for another year! They'd be doomed! (DOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!)" Which seems insincere, ignorant, or narrow-minded, given that they just reported their earnings as back in the black for the first time in a few years, they're always sitting on money set aside for a rainy day, and Amiibos are stupid popular right now. I think the last way they could hope to rebuild goodwill is launching a half-assed console at the tail end of the Wii U. Better to take the extra year (or however long they were planning before 'revealing' it to stock holders) and do it well, then do it asap because Gamers screech about how they 'have' to.

Or hell, the best advice anyone - large companies or individual folks - could live by: never listen to a Gamer (especially if you make games).

The Amiibo thing really is working well, I think people are happier with 'Nintendo as Nintendo' as opposed to "that bowling sim machine" than they've been in years.

Developing more big first party games for Wii U will only hurt the NX's chances if it's launching next year.

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Originally Posted by Hero

I think the last way they could hope to rebuild goodwill is launching a half-assed console at the tail end of the Wii U.

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For whom are they rebuilding goodwill? Their fans will buy whatever they make, whenever they make it, and no one else bought the Wii U.

edit: And why would it be half-assed? It would be hard to do worse than the Wii and Wii U designs.

Even games that release annually take longer than a year to make - again, how do you figure making NX content in 12 months or less is a great idea that would in no way result in a shitshow launch?

Is Nintendo's focus to be profitable or to be #1? I think if it's just profit, they can keep doing what they've always done and carry on. But if they want to be #1, then they need to take that rainy day money and hand it over to Activision or Take Two or whatever and get an exclusive (not counting PC of course) AAA title.

That said, I'm fine with them being them. Of the three consoles, Wii U is my favorite easily. Now excuse me, I'm busy playing PS1 games on PS3.

#1 is meaningless. They want to build a sustainable business that can grow.

I just don't see 75% of console gamers ever touching a Nintendo system, even if COD has more p's on it than PS4 or whatever.

Of the three, I'd get a Wii U. Everything I want on PS4 is on PC, Xbone has nothing.

Never gonna happen, or at least in the foreseeable future, but I would love for the Big N to just go software only. Their online system is atrocious, and the maybe handful of games developed by them I would want are not enough to get me to buy a console from them. Just a silly little dream.