Thinking about it, what else could Nintendo do? With the Wii and the DS, they attracted the casual market and made buckets of money in the process. It's time for new hardware (aka the Wii U and 3DS) but what options are there? A lot of people that bought a Wii or DS are not the kinds of people that will buy the follow up.
My sis is a PS3/Wii/360 owner like me. I doubt she will EVER give the Wii U a second look. She uses the PS3 to watch youtube on TV and the 360 as a DVD player! The Wii doesn't even have working batteries. My mom couldn't tell the difference between a Snes and an Nes. People jumed on the Nintendo 7th gen bandwagon because the systems offered something new (Touch Screen, Motion Controls--and you, the guy who wants to point out that touch screens and motion controls existed before the Wii and DS: Shut the fuck up.) that they had never seen before. It's going to be tough, if not impossible to hook them with better graphics and more processing power.
Nintendo has no choice but to go after the hardcore crowd, again. These are the customers that notice the little things like anti-aliasing and midi-music. These guys are the ones that will buy consoles, generation after generation. But are they going to go back to Nintendo after the family friendly consoles that were the Wii and the DS? As we've seen, there's already a TON of resistance. I'm glad I don’t have to figure out Nintendo's dilemma.
