Comments on: Fixing Nintendo after the fall https://criticalgamer.co.uk/2014/02/05/fixing-nintendo-after-the-fall/ Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:09:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Col https://criticalgamer.co.uk/2014/02/05/fixing-nintendo-after-the-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-484690 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:10:14 +0000 https://criticalgamer.co.uk/?p=15497#comment-484690 Nintendo are a bit odd in their approach. Where Sony will promote and hype the hell out of a game that’s only been conceptualized, raving and droning on about a title literally years in advance, Nintendo will barely send out 2 minutes of trailer footage all the way up until almost the games virtual release, and one of the only mutters you’ll hear of said title will be in some official release list and maybe a ‘Nintendo Direct’ update.
But WiiU is more than every bit capable, they just need to push the games and let ppl know about them

]]> By: smashbrolink https://criticalgamer.co.uk/2014/02/05/fixing-nintendo-after-the-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-484554 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:15:09 +0000 https://criticalgamer.co.uk/?p=15497#comment-484554 How can Nintendo turn their fortunes around?

#1 Do far, FAR better with their advertisement efforts.

The games so far, and coming up, are GREAT GAMES. They just need VIRAL ADVERTISEMENT.
Even the best games won’t sell systems if they aren’t hyped up a bit so people can get excited once they’ve seen the ads for them.

#2 Get more EXCLUSIVES from sources, and ANNOUNCE MORE GAMES MORE OFTEN.

They’ve got tons of indie support coming, but they don’t advertise it much.
They COULD be getting sales for third party exclusives and stuff if they’d offer advertisement efforts for them too.
They’re making it seem like they’ve got too little coming by keeping all the juicy projects close to their chests.
It’s time to open the flood-gates.

#3 IGNORE ALL THE IDIOTS TELLING THEM TO DITCH CONSOLES AND GO MOBILE/THIRD PARTY.

Se-ri-ous-ly! Anyone who thinks ANY idea like those is a viable long-term plan for helping Nintendo survive another two or three generations, needs to get their damned heads checked.

Casuals would move on too quickly to the rest of the overwhelming amount of casual games on phones, so Nintendo would have too tough a time keeping their games relevant to these fickle and quick-moving consumers who expect short games instead of long-winded Mario games that take time to play through and complete.

Similarly, people who love the competition more than Nintendo frequently bash the company AND its games for being everything from “Stuck in the past” to “Kiddy” to “Out-of-touch” to “rehashed crap that never changes”, etc etc etc.
Most of them would gladly choose something like a sequel to The Last of Us over the next Mario game, anyways. There’s no way you’d see Mario 3D World outsell something like The Witcher if they came out near the same time on a system where third party sells best out of everything.
The other systems are not where Nintendo’s fan base is and they are not where Nintendo would be able to get maximum profit, especially considering the fees they’d have to pay to get their games onto those consoles.

Nintendo’s games would not sell to these people long enough to keep Nintendo alive. It’s really just that simple.

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