March 2013 NPD Thread! - 360:261k, 3DS:230k, PS3:212k, Wii:91k, DS:86k, WiiU:67k, PSV: 33k

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Metallicube said:

Really disappointed with Nintendo's effort on Wii U, and how they're actually foolish/stubborn enough to ditch the expanded audience in favor of the hardcore. Appealing to the hardcore is NEVER a smart business move, especially when you're Nintendo.

Nintendo thought they could disguise a Gamecube 2 as a Wii and dupe people into buying it. It didn't work. The mass market audience is smarter than that. Nintendo just has to sleep in the bed they made and ride it out for a few more years, and start fresh with a brand new console in 2016. They need to return to the philosophies and the style of games that made the Wii so successful.

It would've worked, the problem is Nintendo just doesn't want to commit one way or another. They wanted a casual machine, that's kinda-sorta for hardcores too, and that indecision and lack of vision let to a console that basically doesn't appeal to either audience.

Something along the lines of a "New Nintendo (Entertainment System)" with a 850 GFLOP 28nm GPU from AMD and a solid quad core CPU + 4GB of affordable DDR3 RAM and a Western game on the scale of Halo/Metroid Prime/Zelda to launch with along with New Super Mario World (drop the "Bros", leave that for the DS games) could've done OK IMO.