Is Nintendo preparing to dominate?

[Joelcool7]

The ex-Bizarre team making a new realistic driving sim among all the other core games believed to be coming. I mean Silicon has been dropping hints nonstop of a new Nintendo title as have several other studios. We still don't know what half of Japan has been doing the last two years, most of Nintendo's internal studios have been working on top secret projects. A ton of Nintendo's 3DS lineup was outsourced to second and third party studios. Nintendo will have a massive first party lineup to show in comparison to what Sony or Microsoft can possibly muster for their next generation launches.

On the third party front, Reggie has already stated Nintendo sees the lack of multiplat last gen as a massive flaw and weakness. He has publicly stated several times that Nintendo wants to be able to receive ports next generation. This likely means a more powerful system then most are expecting, yet weak enough to keep hardware and software development costs low. While a next generation Microsoft and Sony game might cost 80-100 million roughly 3 times current Dev costs, Nintendo will keep costs down. Cheaper development costs will drive third party support, if the big Activision and EA ignore Nintendo plenty of other publishers won't. THQ will be throwing its full support behind WiiU as will UbiSoft. Other publishers like Atari, Majesco...etc...etc.. really won't have any choice in the matter it will come down to (Support Nintendo or die). Unless all the rumors are false and NextBox really isn't as powerful as people are saying.

After development costs we need to think retail costs. The Nintendo hardware could be a hundred dollars or more cheaper then its closest competitor. This puts them in a strong position during a time when the world's consumers are pinching pennies. For the first time in a long time the film and games industries appear to be being hit hard by economic troubles. This is the perfect time to launch a powerful and innovative machine at a cost effective price. Nintendo appears to be positioning itself for a slaughter fest!

It will be interesting to see what the finished WiiU looks like as well as how Microsoft and Sony counter!