They absolutely can but they have to actually be ambitious towards that goal and not lollygag about it. The seem to be dragging their feet with getting the cosnole to be attractive to core gamers. If they'd allow more ram for games and upped the clockspeed of the console and showed the 3rd parties how serious they are they'd easily get that core image.
It'd be a cheaper but adequate core gamers console with great nitnendo 1st parties. It brings a tear to my eye that Wii U's missing out on Kingdom hearts, MGSV, and FFXV
.... Soo check the petition for just this goal ;)
http://www.change.org/petitions/nintendo-allow-1-5-1-7gb-ram-for-games-overclock-cpu-gpu-for-the-wii-u-for-3rd-parties







