23rd January 2003, 6:50 PM
Heh, I re-read my post and I now realize that the way I said all that made it seem like stuff about the controller was just as important for success as the actual big stuff, like online. I really need to actually learn to list stuff in reverse order of importance. Oh wait, that's for convincing of a point...
Anyway, the REAL points among that list of stuff (which includes minor stuff as well, as you could see) is this stuff.
They NEED more advertising. Word of mouth alone is selling Metroid Prime and Animal Crossing. It's a tactic that's worked before, but they need to rely on TV for some reason. Movie theater ads are a good move, even though blown up 300 times makes ANY console game look terribly low res (I've seen PS2, XBox, and one GCN ad in theaters, and they all looked horrible on a massive screen), even though PC games have a high enough res to look awesome blown up (that's where you can actually tell the difference, the WC3 ad before Two Towers looked awesome).
They NEED Online support and also a hard drive, and it MUST be there from the start, included in the system, not sold seperatly! The details about these two things aren't as important as actually having them.
They NEED to launch at the same time as the PS3. There may be something bad about launching too soon before the popularest system comes out, but then againt the DC may just be a fluke. I mean, the PS1 did great even though Nintendo was the big dog at the time and they released long before the N64. Anyway, my point is that Nintendo needs to come out when PS3 does, which it seems they are in fact doing.
They NEED huge games from the start. No more of this Luigi's Mansion stuff. Super Smash Bros Melee was the only super title they had, and that we still had to wait a bit for.
Everything else is minor compaired to this stuff. Backwards compatilibity is pretty important after this, and the rest of the stuff is pretty much in the same bag after that.
Anyway, the REAL points among that list of stuff (which includes minor stuff as well, as you could see) is this stuff.
They NEED more advertising. Word of mouth alone is selling Metroid Prime and Animal Crossing. It's a tactic that's worked before, but they need to rely on TV for some reason. Movie theater ads are a good move, even though blown up 300 times makes ANY console game look terribly low res (I've seen PS2, XBox, and one GCN ad in theaters, and they all looked horrible on a massive screen), even though PC games have a high enough res to look awesome blown up (that's where you can actually tell the difference, the WC3 ad before Two Towers looked awesome).
They NEED Online support and also a hard drive, and it MUST be there from the start, included in the system, not sold seperatly! The details about these two things aren't as important as actually having them.
They NEED to launch at the same time as the PS3. There may be something bad about launching too soon before the popularest system comes out, but then againt the DC may just be a fluke. I mean, the PS1 did great even though Nintendo was the big dog at the time and they released long before the N64. Anyway, my point is that Nintendo needs to come out when PS3 does, which it seems they are in fact doing.
They NEED huge games from the start. No more of this Luigi's Mansion stuff. Super Smash Bros Melee was the only super title they had, and that we still had to wait a bit for.
Everything else is minor compaired to this stuff. Backwards compatilibity is pretty important after this, and the rest of the stuff is pretty much in the same bag after that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)