Yoshi178 said:
Xprimentyl said:
you don?t see many major developers/publishers looking to gear their efforts to develop for their hardware
what do you think the Playstation move and Kinect were? the only reason those things even exist in the first place is because Sony and Microsoft saw how well Nintendo succeeded in sales with the Motion controlled gaming with the Wii.
hell Microsoft even made Kinect 2.0 a major focus of the Xbox One at launch and was planning to include it in every xbox one package until consumers complained about being "forced" to pay for it.
Move and Kinect were Sony?s and Microsoft?s attempt to usurp Nintendo?s niche share of the market; not because they
needed it or because it?s the direction the industry was naturally headed, no; like chipmunks with both cheeks full, Sony and Microsoft decided enough *
wasn?t*, and tried grasping with any and all free limbs to hoard more; Kinect and Move are the nuts that fell out of their greedy arms. Mind you, no dev was committed to developing for those peripherals, neither produced a AAA, must-have, console selling app or IP, and in the end, save for myriad, laughable PR faux pas, neither company suffered major, irrecuperable losses for their attempts at reproducing/improving upon Nintendo?s success with motion gaming. (And Kinect 2.0 was simply MS?s falling for their own bullshit and doubling down on an idea that was basically dead on its feet.) Yes, many devs attempted to
incorporate Kinect and Move functionality (because it was there and ?why not,?) but no major players developed or hung their name on games focused purely for them.
I?m not insinuating Nintendo isn?t a valid component of the industry. Hell, I knew better when my mother, who?d never touched a videogame in her then +60 years of life, went out and got a Wii, but I also knew that no one at Bungie, Naughty Dog or Infinity Ward saw her as a critical part of the gaming demographic worth developing for or that her purchase and the hundreds of thousands like hers were the heralds of the new age of gaming that might threaten to leave them behind. Nintendo doesn?t compete directly with Sony and Microsoft just as McDonald?s isn?t a threat to the Ruth Chris steakhouse down the street, and before anyone cites sale figures, this is despite the fact that McDonald?s Big Mac has probably outsold Ruth Chris? finest steak 100,000 to 1; everyone?s got to eat and a $2 burger is cheaper and more accessible than a $50 steak. I don?t know of any serious gamer who?s said ?If the next Uncharted or Halo suck, the Switch will become my console of choice? simply because Nintendo is an entirely different and predominantly more casual gaming experience. I know it sounds condescending, but Nintendo is like last year?s smartphone; you give it to your pre-teen or grandmother when you get the latest and greatest smartphone for yourself; both phones can make calls and text, but there?s a clear delineation between the two when it comes to the total package.
So no, Nintendo cannot alone, simply by pushing out new hardware, usher in a ?new generation? of gaming They?re tangential; the best they can do is offer more, niche-y gimmicks for the current age. Insignificant? Not at all; there?s a serious, more accessible portion of the industry quartered off just for them, but until they have the hardware and third-party support that puts them on the same level as Sony and Microsoft (and let?s not even take it to PCs,) they simply cannot captain the ship of the gaming industry.
