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Jonzor
Wrote on12/09/12 at 01:25 AM CT
I think this is a lot more about Nintendo reaping the "rewards" of their decisions during the last console cycle than it is the superior palette of the discerning Wii U owner.
Wii U owners didn't reject AAA titles, Nintendo rejected the people that would like to play them, and now they're stuck with a user base that's going to ensure the failure of this first crop of AAA titles, thus keeping the cycle going. Expecting them to come flocking back in the first month of a new console seems... optimistic. It's like opening up a little shop that sells blankets and then being surprised that the Native American community doesn't buy a lot of them.
Nintendo chose this path long ago. If they now decide they want the AAA-game fans to take them seriously, they have to PROVE it. That's going to take a while, because Nintendo dug themselves a deep hole with the Wii... which I think was a mini game on several titles... see, you'd hold the Wiimote like a shovel and race your grandmother trying to see who can dig a hole faster while slowly failing to convince yourself this is better than playing Skyrim, Bioshock or Arkham Asylum.
People haven't just been sitting around since the SNES waiting for the Nintendo console to get all the good games again... they've moved on, and Nintendo made it extremely clear it doesn't care about them. So now, if Nintendo wants them back, I honestly think it's going to take a little time, and a little begging on Nintendo's part.
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