The difference being that catering to the hardcore to a certain degree now is easier than it has ever been: with third parties desperate to have more places to multiplat to, if you give them an environment they can easily work in, they'll just dump their stuff there along with everywhere else
Now certainly this gives Nintendo no advantages, but it cuts their disadvantages, and if their platform is competitively priced and continues to see the kinds of titles that made Wii a success, then they'll have what they have currently as well as a healthy third party environment
The worrying thing is the 3DS' lineup. Mario Kart is a solid start, but we'll have to see more of Super Mario 3D before we can evaluate it (unlike Malstrom, i believe that convergence between 2d and 3d Mario can occur successfully, and i suppose this game will be the test for that), but there really aren't any major mass-market hooks outside of those
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
