This rediculous fantasy of Nintendo releasing some uber console in the middle of the gen and all of a sudden the Sony and MS fans, as well as 3rd parties, flock to it with open arms (and it becomes a huge sucess) is absurd.
Anyone delirious enough to think that 3rd parties are going to stop what they are doing mid gen and start tossing millions and millions of dollars towards game development were a new Ninty console to release, with a zero user base to start, is absolutely out of their cotton pickin' minds!
Proof is in the Wii U pudding. A year headstart with over 4 million user base (almost 6m at present) and big name, big budget, quality games such as Black Flag, Ghosts and Batman struggle to sell a couple hundred thousand units. Why? The install base of near 6m is there.
It's because Nintendo console buyers (for the most part) buy it for Nintendo games...and that's it. Bar none, in a nut shell...look at the 3rd party sales. It's not a mystery as to why more 3rd party games are not coming to the "U"...and it has very little or nothing to do with hardware. It's not a problem with the "U", it's a problem with the majority "U" consumer not putting their money where their mouths are...which gives devs/pubs very little reason to take any risks.
Of course, nintendo will release new hardware eventually...but it won't be for years. There is absolutely ZERO point in it. Because again, if anyone thinks that things will change with 3rd parties until the people buying Ninty start buying 3rd party, they're fooling themselves. I don't care what the hardware has under the hood.
