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Pachter - Nintendo has boxed themselves into creating a revolutionary Wii successor, but it won't see Wii success

by rawmeatcowboy
01 February 2011
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Just incase you missed our post over the weekend, this is what Pachter had to say about a Wii successor…

“Nintendo can’t let Microsoft have a 20 million install base of next-gen consoles and they’re still in the last generation. I’ve been vilified during the last couple of weeks for saying that. I said in ‘08 [the Wii HD] was coming, because I really thought the time was right […] 2010, I think, was the absolute last Christmas they could afford to wait. They had to do it and they didn’t. Now, I think it’s too late. Clearly, any of the three console manufacturers can advance the technology to the next level and have facial recognition, have Milo that actually works, that kind of stuff. I mean, they could do it, but do you think any of the third parties are gonna support that? I don’t see EA, who’s barely profitable, saying: ‘We had such a great experience with the Wii last time, we’re gonna dedicate $500 million of R&D to make facial recognition stuff.’ It ain’t gonna happen. So without third-party support, I think the Wii 2, if it’s truly a revolutionary device, will fail. I think they boxed themselves in. No matter what they do, it won’t be as successful as the Wii.”

Could anyone have predicted what Nintendo did with the Wii, or the ripples it would send through the entire game industry? We all know that the Wii took everyone by surprise. To say that Nintendo couldn’t do it again makes no sense!

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