Sunday, September 11, 2011

Wii U Troubles?

Nintendo may be in trouble. I've expressed my concern for Nintendo in the past. When they released the Wii in 2006, they were already in trouble. They put all their effort into providing their innovated motion sensing technology and provided no support for third party developers. They also put no effort into advancing their graphics capabilities or processing power. This automatically killed off most of the core gaming community's interest in the console. With the Xbox 360 dominating the next generation market and the PS3 launching nearly simultaneously, the Wii had almost no shot at making a chunk on the market. That is thinking from a logical perspective. There will always be die hard fans. The Nintendo Wii survived due to the inexplicably large Nintendo fan base and the very young and very old communities getting heavily involved in the simple gameplay. Now, after the Wii's fifth year on the market, Nintendo is acting out of desperation. The lifespan for the current generation of consoles is supposed to be ten years. That was stated from the beginning. Now Nintendo has announced the Wii U, originally code named "Project Cafe". The Wii U is supposed to be a revolutionary way to play video games. It includes an overhauled graphics card and processor. It also includes a massive controller that includes an interactive screen. It has potential. There are a few things wrong with it though. As of right now, it only supports one controller. They are working on making the console support two controllers, but it still isn't enough. The novelty of the controller will dissipate rather quickly. It's a very clunky design. I won't go into the other downsides of the console. It still has a lot of development time before it's release next holiday. There are, however, many developers are saying that developing games for the console is "absolute hell". Things aren't looking good for Nintendo. Falling Wii sales. Utter failure with the 3DS. A price drop on 3DS and immediate design change for a 2012 re-release is going to kill them. Now things aren't looking good for the Wii U. Nintendo is going to fail as a company unless they get their act together or partner with a different company. That's all I have to say about that.

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