Bill Cosby once said that he didn’t really know what the key to success was, but that “the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” While there are dozens of variations of the quote from throughout time, the point of the argument is that one cannot stretch themselves to accommodate everyone. The world is simply too diverse to have an exact pattern that appeals to everyone.
I tend to agree. Wii caught lightning in a bottle. It's not easy to do. Clearly 3DS isn't doing it. Not sure Project Cafe will either. That's not to say that Project Cafe can't do well, but Wii type success seems unlikely to me.
I agree. Believing that Nintendo can pull another Wii off is overly optimistic.
I think the device has some potential to woo HD gamers in, but I don't think it'll have the same appeal to the Blue Ocean, this time around.
The Wii was a great kids console -- cheap to leave on standby, reliable, the controllers are easy to use and sturdy, the console was the cheapest of the 3 current gen.. good stuff.
Throw a tactile-feedback LCD touchscreen on the controller (now the controller needs constant charging, which is painful with kids, who are pretty impatient and not very good at planning their gaming time, or managing the charge on their controller), make it priced the same or more than a HD console... Nintendo just disposed of a large portion of the audience they spent the past 5 years capturing.
I thought, for sure, the Wii will remain in production after the Cafe comes out, to keep a hold on the Blue Ocean, but... well the price has gotten pretty low, which is suspicious.
well i think nintendo roped in alot of new fans with the Wii. i bet more than a few housewives will buy the new nintendo.
these same people said the wii wouldnt be successful
analysts and knowledge. Dont belong together
In fact I am going through an old egm issue. feb 2005 issue 188. The question was asked of the ds.
What do you think of it so far? ( At this point it had an entire holiday plus january of time)
A: "hmm, can you say virtual boy 2? The ds seems gimmicky to me. Its just akward to use and The launch games are so weak. I have a feeling that hardly any game makers will invent novel uses for the system
A: "The launch titles are dissapointing" "It seems the system is 80 percent old news"
Looking back how silly does shoe sound? Because this is the same guy in the article
The point is. How does he know anything before release, 1 month after release, 2 months after release, 5 months after release, 1 year after release, 2 years after release, 3 years after?
Its all talking out of the anus.
The end result , total system sales, total system unit sold, amount of exclusive games at the end
thats what I care about.
This time it's a matter of converting those "old" gamers to purchase another system.