mmm lets cast our minds back to the last underperforming Nintendo console, the Gamecube. They then followed that up by..oh yes the mega popular Wii that sold over 100m. I also remember reading posts very similar to yours when Gamecube was at its lowest ebb. Nintendo could quite easily follow up the Wii U with another success, just as easily as they could fuck up.

You should also take into account that those huge expenses in that period include Wii U launch, the last year of its development and starting its production.
But yes, while usually Ninty starts profiting on HW in its first year, doing it during the second year may be slow for Ninty standards, but it's the fastest its competitors could ever achieve before PS4, so we can say that even with a very bad start Ninty managed to turn again its whole HW line viable, and doing it with modest sales is not a trivial achievement.

Please what? Getting better with Smash, yes. But competing with PS4 and X1? Did someone really thought that?

I was more talking about being on all consoles and the PC, but with PSNow it will be (or is already) possible to play Uncharted on a tablet anyway and I don't mind. As long as the overall quality of the game isn't butchered to accomodate the weakest platform (which with streaming won't be the case cause the platform that the game is playing on will always be the same) I don't really care on how many platforms a game comes out.

It isn't always about graphical quality, but do you really think gameplay will be unaffected by the decision to support other platforms? Different input, different usage habits? I have my doubts the game will stay the same, if tablet-users are in the mind of the game designer. If on the other hand games simply streamed that are developed for a different platform, the users of the streaming may experience some difficulties in controlling the game.

Maybe I see too much problems, but I simply don't think such decisions are without effect on the game.

Wii U Pro Controller, DualShock 3 + 4, and the Xbox One controllers (360 + XBO), PS Vita, 3DS+CirclepadPro, Nvidia Shield as well as many gamepads for PC, Android and iOS aren't that different in their layout and functions.

Additionally, Nintendo could offer official Nintendo controllers (with a great profit margin) on many different platforms for the "true Nintendo experience". If these accessories are worth their money (good quality, enough supported games), they would sell... the expensive Guitar hero / Rock band / Wii fit accessories sold in millions.

Yup. I remember back when Mario Kart 8 came out, around June, there were plenty of people who thought that with Smash releasing later that year, the Wii U would easily be able to stay ahead of the X1 in sales. That was a fairly common opinion around here, actually. Then the holiday season came and X1's sales exploded while Wii U's didn't really, even with Smash. I believe it's left a lot of people around here very confused and upset, hence all the threads like this.

A tablet with a keyboard is no more a tablet.

Nintendo doom predictions.


is it the 80s again?
is it the 90s again?
is it the you get it....

happens in a cycle. Every thing goes up and everything goes down.

when things are down these predictions happen.

boring.