Nintendo's gamer strategy and why they could take it all this next gen

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Michael-5 said:

The last time Nintendo released a home console with strong third party support, it leaded in sales (NES/SNES). If the Wii U manages to get 3rd party developers to make PS360 games for the Wii U, and maybe even use the Wii U as a base platform for the next gen (similar to how developers used PS2 as a base platform last gen), then not only will Wii U be the cheapest system, which gets all the third party support, but it will also be the first on the market.

If Nintendo plays their cards right, they will have a huge lead this gen. However I've read that the PS4 and NextBox might not be that much of a graphical jumo next gen, and it's likely that the NextBox will get strong sales in the USA being an American brand, and PS4 will likely hold a lot of loyal customers.

So I'm only counting on the Wii U to dominate in Japan. I'm hoping this gets a good majority of JRPG's on the Wii U and we get to live in another SNES era of RPG bliss. We already have Dragon Quest X and Mass Effect 3 coming to the Wii U, and there are rumors that FFXIII Versus has become FFXV, which is now a PS3/Wii U title. It would be nice to see another core Final Fantasy on a Nintendo console.

Great response and yes I feel the same way on all accounts.  Nintendo is already dominating Japan, which makes Wii U a good base for Japanese home console games.  Those have huge followings even in the west, so even if a base stays loyal to Sony or Microsoft, that brings up the point of Japanese developer fans who might get a Wii U just for those games.  And no I don't think that Sony and Microsoft will die off, they have their gamer public image going strong, on that note Nintendo has to do the winning over and not those guys, it's true they have a lot of barriers to overcome, but if they can surmount it they could get higher console numbers this gen and only marginally impact Sony and MS console sales next gen (10m - 20m off what the PS3 and 360 got this gen is what I'd say, much like SNES to N64 and then N64 to GC, a 30m and 10m drop respectfully cause Sony and then Microsoft successfully pulled off this strategy)