News - Nintendo UK to meet with worried Wii U retailers

[Biscuit]

I sometimes wonder about the kind of people who see a product like the Wii U and think, 'yeah this is going to be MASSIVE'.

This was the most predictable thing to happen in a long time, an idiot could have seen it a mile away!

I wouldn't write Nintendo off, but there is only so many gimmicks they can get away with before they have to do something which is just really good in the traditional sense of the word.

[dcwt2010]

Nintendo need to start porting their titles to iOS and Android stores, they are failing to capitalise on a huge market there. I mean seriously, some of the SNES and gameboy titles would play fine on tablets and smartphones so why not?

[crossy]

Nintendo need to start porting their titles to iOS and Android stores, they are failing to capitalise on a huge market there. I mean seriously, some of the SNES and gameboy titles would play fine on tablets and smartphones so why not?

Don't forget other possibilities too - Ouya and 3rd Gen "smart tvs" for the Android fans, and this (mythical?) Apple console that Gabe Newell keeps talking about, (or at least it's reported that he keeps talking about).

I'm going to also suggest that - in addition to repurposing themselves as "merely" software suppliers to Sony, Microsoft, et al they could also do a good business perhaps in game controllers for tablets, smartphones etc. All the ones I've seen so far have been pretty shoddily executed - e.g. flimsy.

Failing that - how about trying to persuade one of the big TV makers (Samsung springs to mind) to include Wii functionality into one of their TV's.

[TooNice]

I wouldn't write Nintendo off, but there is only so many gimmicks they can get away with before they have to do something which is just really good in the traditional sense of the word.

I think that it's good to have a company willing to take risks and try different things. Sure it's nice to have a machine 3 times more powerful than the last, but all that really do is make things look prettier (I don't think that AI has kept up). Not irrelevant, but it's not going to change the way we play games. Whereas something different can be anything from "What the hell were they thinking", "just a gimmick", to something truly revolutionary. I don't think that we are done with the way we interact with a video game console. The future could be very different, IF manufacturers are willing open new horizons.

[HalloweenJack]

with EA not supporting it only time before the rest follow suit. sorry Nintendo , this is a duck