Okay axt, here's the thing:
. Why are you so fixated on sales? Are you a gamer? Or a share-holder? I've met lots of gamers like this who seem to care more about the sales than what the console offers them.
Even while in third place with GC, Nintendo made profits from almost the get-go. With the Wii, they've made tons of cash.
So much in fact that they could release a console on the market to fail just for the lulz. =p
Nintendo could never be in the kind of position Sony and MS were at the beginning of this gen because they don't sell at a loss.
. You keep on going about how Nintendo should have made more Wii-Fit and more Sports Resorts for the 'casual' market. Alot of these people picked up the Wii for a couple of games and because of its popularity and then left it when the fun died down for them. They got their experience and they weren't interest in anymore. Some others probably got into gaming a bit and started looking for new experiences.
The core market is much more sustainable than the casual market because alot of them don't stick around for long.
The core market should be of interest to Nintendo because these are the people who buy many games a year, which is alot of money for gaming companies. That's why I think a big part of their strategy was to turn these new gamers into core gamers and get them more interested in gaming. Since their first console would have been the Wii, they are more likely to stick with Nintendo.
Nintendo will probably continue to make games like...erm...Cafe Sports and...Cafe Fit, but don't expect them to sell like they did on Wii. The Wii caught lighting in a bottle. It's near impossible to create that kind of thing again (so soon).
. Nintendo will not see massive success next gen by just copy-pasting their Wii strategy like you seem to believe. It doesn't work that way.
. Your statements about rejecting of Nintendo IPs and how they should be discontinued because they sold less than 20 million truly baffles me. I'm questioning wether you are a gamer or if you just follow this industy for sales.
I also don't think you know how few games manage to sell the amounts the Mario Galaxies did. Sales don't represent the quality of a game by the way.
. The Wii is no longer in a blue ocean. MS (and I guess Sony too...) have started swimming in that ocean.
. NO company will always be on top forever. You can fall as quickly as you rise. They have to take risks to flourish and sometimes those risks will cause them to falter.
. You seem to want Nintendo to abandon their core fans who have been with them since n64 and beyond by discontinuing Zelda, 3D Marios, Metroid and God knows what other great Nintendo IPs and put all their eggs in the unsustainable market that is the 'casuals'. Very foolish if you ask me.
You are too stubborn. You may have some good points but many others are pure bullocks and you seem to refuse to take points of the other posters into careful consideration. Your ideas would sooner cause Nintendo to fail than prosper. Nintendo markets to EVERYONE, not just casuals and not just retro gamers. EVERYONE.
