That's because the console 1) looked like a Fisher Price toy, 2) didn't play DVD movies (which was a huge selling point for the PS2, especially early in its life cycle), 3) had no online games / network to speak of outside of a port of PSOII in an age where online gaming was exploding on PC and set to take off on consoles as well, and 4) Nintendo was more concerned about protecting its family-friendly image than allowing 3rd parties to bring some of the top selling titles of the generation over to the console like the GTA series.

Despite all that however, the GC has a very respectable library of titles from both 1st and 3rd party studios and in terms of both quality and quantity it has a better library than the Wii, Wii U and even the N64 had.

It's their only chance, so i'm not surprised.

I agree. I think there's no family market for a console.

Good luck, Nintendo.

not a one?

every board game ever is on ipad (chess, life, monopoly, ect) and it plays out well to have it on a tablet.  the tablet basically is the "board".

also i'll just assume you don't have a kid.  if you are looking for interactive entertainment for a toddler mobile is really the only avenue.  the touch controlls are intuitive enough for my 2 year old (in a way that DS is too complicated for him to understand).  there are literally millions of apps availible many of which are free.  the lack of "quality" isn't a big deal because he's 2.  software can literally be as simple as touch the screen to make a dot change colors (that's not an exaggeration,.. my kid loves the app based off the book press here).  most of the "games" i play with him because its is as much about educational experiences as it is about "games". 

by the time my kid is old enough to understand a "3DS" he'll have years of experience with a mobile device.   i seriously doubt he'll want to change from thing he'll already know and love,.. at the very least this is what i'm seeing in my young neice and nephews.  this is what is killing nintendo imo.  lots of people joke that ninendo is a "kiddy machine" but to me it isn't child friendly enought to take hold with today's youth.

Everyone I know who has children don't buy console for their little children. Mobiles are far cheaper, with lots of free games, and children just adore it.

Nintendo makes games for children but they forget that children don't buy stuff. Parents do and they buy whatever is cheaper for their children: mobile of course.

Ok, the whole family market thing just got a whole lot more credible:

Fils-Aime told Bloomberg (via Nibel): "For us, it's not about specs, it's not about teraflops, it's not about the horsepower of a particular system. For us, it's about the content."

Fils-Aime continued: "We're focused on bringing our best entertainment to both the Wii U as well as the NX in the future. So for us, whatever Microsoft and Sony are doing in terms of talking about new systems, that's for them to fight out in that red ocean."

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Especially that "Red Ocean" Part sounds like they are trying to pull another Wii with a new Blue Ocean.
While I agree that trying ro directly compete with Microsoft and Sony would be futile for now, I am a bot nervous what that means for the sort of Games NX will be getting.

this ^

I can say many things but i'm fraid of losing my temper as a result to get  banned...

Tablet controller which adds 100$ dollars to the wii u price is a  small issue? hahahaah!

P.s Why microsoft dropped kinect...You remember? When xbox one was selling like the wii u, despite its strong third party support...

It's kind of a wonder that Nintendo is even paying that much still for the piece of junk the Wii U Game Pad is.

You can buy an Amazon Kindle tablet that has a larger display with higher resolution screen, it's own RAM, it's CPU/GPU, which can run apps, it's own flash storage for $69.99 retail today, lol.

Really...? Pffff....

From what I know, the most costly thing of the gamepad it's its screen...