You heard me right, folks. I know, I know, Nintendo has always tried to sell a cheap piece of hardware. I also know that has worked out for them at points (Wii, 3ds) but it more often has lead to decreased sales from previous generations (N64, Gamecube, Wii U). This is a different age now. The playstation and microsoft devices are increasingly getting geared more towards a longer than 5-6 year life cycle. I suspect the NX won't release until, the earliest, 2017 and, therefore, Nintendo won't be caught up to the competition until then. If, by 2017, the NX launched with similar power capababilities (or even slightly greater), were going to have the same issue with it that we did with the Wii U having similar power to ps3/360. This is why I think it would be best for Nintendo to release a mega console that totally blows the ps4/xbox one out of the water and matches modern ultra powerful pcs.

This sucker needs to have 32 gig ram, at least 3-5 terabytes of hardrive, some chip no one or their mothers has even heard of yet, and anything else that would make this thing advanced as all get out! Yes, it will be expensive, but I have a plan for that too. I think Nintendo should allow their customers to pay $100 a year until it is payed off. This will encourage people to buy their device, even though it will be expensive in the long run (but $100 a year is hardly anything to gamers so it would work out fine). Ultimately, this ultra powerful device would be so much more powerful than the ps4/xbone, that by the time the ps5/xbtwo release they will be either just as powerful or barely more. This device should be powerful enough to last 10 years, which would encourage people to buy them without worry of the device being repleased, encourage developers that their games have a huge potential for legs as well as knowing the hardware won't change so they can really master making games on the device in an efficient way, as well as encourage the shareholders that Nintendo isn't going to bank their company in a new, radical idea every 5-6 years that could, potentially, be a failure as have many of their devices.

Overall:

Mega powerful Nintendo home console that is a 10 year device where you pay $100 a year until it is paid off.

Not gonna happen.

No way. Nintendo deeply cares about how much energy their consoles consume.

Or they could just release a $399-449 box and blow PS4/X1 out the water. No need for subscription service, that would just bankrupt them, they would loose billions on hardware from the following years.

The only thing that I think keeps Nintendo on the low end of pricing is their company values and always wanting to appeal to the family market. Truth is the family market belong to whoever the market leader is (PS1, PS2, Wii). Unless Nintendo produces another wii, the majority of their market is just core fans who would happily pay $399 for a system if it had the right games.

Nope. Few Nintendo games really need a lot of power anyway. I prefer a cheaper system with a decent support rather than a monster machine that won't sell well the first years and it wil be ignored by 3rd parties anyway. Nintendo needs to unify their libraries and get as many 3rd parties as possible, even if they aren't big budget AAA games, and for that they need great sales the first years.

God I hope not, haven't Wii, Wii U & Nintendo's entire line of handhelds show u that u don't need top of the line hardware to produce excellent games with beautiful visuals?

No.

That will happen the same day The Last Guardian releases on Xbox One.

That would be suicide for them.

Honestly, you know, none of that would do any good unless they first spend resources on a competent third-party relationship team and increase the diversity of the titles they develop and/or publish.

Nintendo has deeper issues they need to address before they worry too much about hardware.