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Soleron on 15 January 2013
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Soundwave said:

Nintendo still made a profit with the GameCube and even bigger one with the N64.

Most of that was Game Boy and Game Boy Advance respectively.

Let the casuals go, they were an unreliable, flakey market that wasn't interested in any serious game experiences outside a little Mario and Mario Kart here and there. That's why with even 100 million users, things like Xenoblade and Sin & Punishment could barely find an audience, and more core IP like Zelda and Metroid really didn't perform all that much better than the N64 or GCN days.

Quality games aimed at casuals always did sell. Shovelware did not.

Screw this audience. Now they're all about 99 cent iOS games. That's what gaming is worth to them, so let them leave They just want disposable, simple, cheap experiences.

99c games replaced free PC games and Flash, not Wii. If Nintendo was still making quality casual experiences they'd still be buying. But they didn't need a new console to do that. Casuals don't care about U Pad. Why didn't Nintendo just carry on with Wii?

Nintendo Land isn't hooking with the casuals,

Because it's not what they want!

 ian Training/Nintendogs/Wii Sports/Wii Fit are old news.

Animal Crossing still selling. Wii Sports/Fit haven't even been made recently so you can't say they wouldn't sell. Wii Fit U probably WILL sell.

Just Dance is the new thing and that'll probably go the way of Guitar Hero in about a year too. These fads come and go. 

GH ran out of songs they wanted to play. You still see people playing GH, just not buying it. If fads go away, why has CoD not yet?

Who cares if the Wii U only sells around the N64 level (I doubt it would ever go as low as the GCN) and is supported primarily by core Nintendo fans? We got great Nintendo games back then, and third parties don't give a crap about Nintendo either way, so not much difference there. If anything, Nintendo realizing the casual gamer is leaving them may lead to them doing things like actually paying attention to graphics and presentation (read: NEW music) in things like the 2D Mario games. 

Do you trust Nintendo to keep up good installments of core games? Because as a super dedicated Nintendo fan I have had nothing but disappointment for the last Mario, Pokemon, Metroid, and Paper Mario.