If the Nintendo NX happens to fail, what do you think Nintendo will do or you hope they do?
If the NX fails they'll probably give it another go with Consoles. I mean I can't see them giving up so easily.
If the NX does fail, what I hope they do is: abandon the gimmicks and just make a decently powered system on par with what the other consoles at the time can do and release theirs roughly when the new generation starts. This way it'd entice third party back onto the platform if nothing else. That would probably not make people jump immediately to buy the console, but if they're looking at all 3 and the NX's successor can't play 3rd party but the others can... It easily eliminates one option right away. I mean there are always gaps in the 1st party library. That's where 3rd party comes in handy... to help round out a roster. (That and if all your friends are getting Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare 4 on PS6... it's obvious which one an individual is more likely to go with.)
I would also hope they look at their release schedule and realize that they need more than a few great games a year. People do not buy consoles without a good stream of exclusive content. So if that means making more studios? So be it.
Also they should look at their franchises and see which ones they haven't used in a while. Tap into nostalgia and make some new games. Tell an alternate universe story like what if Samus failed at stopping the Metroid threat on Zebes. Or maybe a new Legend of Zelda from Zelda's perspective. (Or Impa or Linkle.) Maybe another Paper Mario RPG (go back to the roots of the series) where because Bowser used the star rod before it became corrupted and began filling the land with evil.
Yes, they brought back Star Fox... but they shoved in a very awkward control scheme centred around the gamepad. (Which, while playable, is harder than it needed to be.)
The gimmicks really haven't helped them for consoles. I mean:
- The N64's awkward controller certainly didn't make playing some games very easy.
- The Gamecube's mini discs limited the amount of storage on a disc. Which meant they either had to have multiple discs, up the compression or cut things down/out.
- Their 7th gen focus on motion controls came at just the right time to hook casuals, but that hasn't really carried over.
- Their 8th gen focus on the gamepad for asychronous gameplay really hasn't gone over well. (Poor marketing and slow drip of software haven't helped.)
Sure when they put a second screen on the Gameboy and made it a DS it worked. (Likely because the screens were so close it didn't take a huge amount of effort to view both. )
But the 3D on the 3DS? Can't say it's really had the same success. Seems like most people just use the slider to turn it off. The only reason people support the 3DS is because it has a decent library of games. (I mean the 3D alone didn't sell well. Remember how rocky a start the 3DS had? They had to drop the price very early on and give some early adopters free games to make up for it.)
Fact is there was a time... basically up to the 5th gen where games really were the core focus. The hardware was powerful in some ways, not overwhelmingly so. I mean the Playstation 1 had some advantages (increased storage capacity for one) while the N64 had much faster load times.
And the gameboy line, for the most part, was adding features and making them more powerful. (From black and white to limited colour palette to full colour.) Up until the DS of course.
As for Sony and Microsoft, true they have added gimmicks too. And that hasn't always gone well for them either. Xbox 1 had a lot of bad PR to recover from early on due to their TV-focused blunder. And then of course the Kinect. Sony made similar mistakes with the Move during the PS3's life. (Though on the plus for Sony and Microsoft, both Kinect and Move were bolted on afterwards so they could often be ignored if gamers didn't want them. Which is largely what happened.)
Why would it fail though?
because Nintendo is coming off one major huge failure that is Wii U.
I felt the Wii U was not a failure, it had some good games being released for it. The Wii U still manage to sell over 12 million consoles according to IGN , and the Wii U still have time to sell more consoles until they discontinue the Wii U in the future. 12 million consoles is still a lot of consoles.
I'm pretty sure compared to the Wii and other consoles, they all sold well over 100 million consoles. Nintendo might have broken even but in the end the console did poorly, not a complete loss but did poorly.
Yes. Remember reading somewhere that the company has enough money that they could basically stay solvent even if they lost money for about a decade straight.
Edit: Apparently, they could stay afloat even if they lost money for the next 38 years:
http://www.gamesradar.com/nintendo-doomed-not-likely-just-take-look-how-much-money-its-got-bank/
I believe that, Nintendo has been going a long time and seems to invest their money. Then again they could make a very powerful system, take a loss by selling it at their usual console selling price.