I think it would be impossible to re-create the magic that is/was Wii Sports. Nintendoland is interesting ... but admittedly some of its appeal is lost on those who are not versed in Nintendo games. Still, when you see people around the plaza who are commenting and having fun it is hard to say that there is not a wide appeal to the game. Also, I think a lot of people forget that the blue ocean was desinged to lure people in and increase their emersion -- so if that is the game then Nintendoland is a natural progression.

The "WiiU Party" shown on the Nintendo Direct may be the game that is more "blue ocean" as it appears to have a much broader potential appeal to non-traditional gamers.  How much and of what type cannot be said definitively without more information, however.  Also, given the plethera of freebies on tablets and smartphones, spending too much time on the casual gamer won't make too much money for a console maker.

Finally, playing a WiiU does not mean understanding the WiiU. I talked with a clerk at a national retailer today who said he had played with the WiiU and thought you still had to enter in separate numeric codes for each game to play on line.  So Nintendo is easy to know but difficult to master.

Mike from Morgantown

Yeh your very good. Not overly complicated and you backed your opinion with facts. You should be getting paid!

Dont worry the wii u sports will come, but they gotta push out some stuff to show off the game pad. Its brand new and they gotta show off there ideas. The rest of the anouncements they had to do. They know they goofed and they got a brand new console out with no games comeing for 2 months so they had to do something to keep people excited. I think the sales will still suffer until at least march but they had to do something.

True, but it'd be bad business to neglect an extra few million dollars in revenue simply because a company has a grudge against another. CEOs shouldn't dabble in highschool drama.

The graphical improvements are going to be very minor from Wii U to PS4/720, its all still 1080p. At best, there will be more ram and processor speed. I've made a point elsewhere, that I wouldn't hold my breath to see a leap in graphic quality from PS3 to PS4 or 360 to 720. The bottleneck is now at the end user - we're still in a world where the highest resolution output in homes is 1080p. We won't see 2k or 4k technology affordable and commonplace for at least another generation AFTER the PS4/720/WiiU.  We're fairly maxed out on graphical improvements for another decade.

As for the gamepad, this is a good point, but not every game has to use it. Wii controls work in Wii U, from what I understand of it.  So it can be bypassed.

Hum, what about no? Resolution isn't all. Draw distance, polygons on screen, lighting effects (and the number of active light sources), among plenty of other things can still be pushed way beyond what we currently see on the current gen consoles and the Wii U. We see movies like Avatar on our 1080p screens and the graphics of games are nowhere near that level. So yes, things can still get much better than they are now, even if the resolution stays at 1080p for the next decade.

How about any Discovery channel HD programming on 720p compared with the highest resolution game available on the planet? Avatar is rendered via processes and actual artists over hundredred million in costs, the cheapest dvd players and BR players can display them on your TV, the processing took place "outside the box".  People need to stop acting like PS4 and 720 can render godlike graphics, they are CHEAP equipment even compared with moderately priced PCs.  There is nothing under the hood that makes the graphics that awesome because next gen consoles are last gen Computers.

But you are right, more can be pushed out of Wii U, just like more got pushed out of this gen consoles.  I just hope the enormous costs to forever push the graphics envelope don't result in just gunning down, or sniping off different people on different contents...year after year, but no real new gameplay.

^^^ How to miss the point with a mouthful.

I don't get why any self confessed long term nintendo fan would be concerned about whether nintendo follow the blue ocean strategy or not (unless, of course, they own shares in the company)

I too am a grumpy old man and I've been a fan of nintendo for years and I couldn't be happier to see them catering to their core audience. While I would obviously rather see nintendo succeed, saleswise, as a fan I'd rather be playing a 3d mario game or a new zelda any day over a new wii sports title.

Why was everyone in the world angry when nintendo (allegedly) focused on 'so-called' casual fare, now everyone in the world seems angry when nintendo aren't? (although Game and Wario, Wii Fit U and Wii U Party make me wonder if this is actually the case!)

How about, no Avatar is a teribl example?

Oh, one of those who can't be wrong. Noted.