It's interesting to me how Nintendo is perceived as a company which struggles to see success in spite of three of their last four systems being successful, two of them being their most successful ever, their last major product launch (Amiibo) doing crazy numbers, their next launch (NES Classic) looking to do the same, and having a new major system launch lined up that was obviously built after taking a sober look at their one recent failure and addressing its issues in a logical, clear-eyed way.
The perception of importance of the home console is strong in the west. No one sees Sony's game division as struggling to achieve success because of the Vita. It's fascinating how deeply one's reputation is tied to The Console.
I imagine that if the situation were flipped - everything they've done recently a failure except for a market-leading Wii U (which would certainly be a much more dire situation for them) - their perception would be more positive.
This isn't to say that Wii U's failure isn't significant for them (it is), or that Switch is a guaranteed success (no matter how good things look now - and they do look pretty good - anything can happen, any ball can be dropped). It's that Switch bombing would make it more of an outlier than part of the norm, and their reputation doesn't reflect that, is my observation.
Edited by DashSim, 22 October 2016 - 01:21 PM.
