Are Pikmin 3 FW sales proof enough for you that the Wii U is not doomed?

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DevilRising said:

Soundwave said:

 

It's been widely speculated, but I imagine it would be a device that is fully portable but can also wirelessly transmit it's video signal to your television so it can function as a home console as well. Basically the reverse of the current Wii U.

Just because something is widely speculated, doesn't make it true. For instance, it was widely speculated that there was (FOR A FACT) a Star Fox game coming to Wii circa 2010/2011. Never happened. There are always things that are widely/heavily speculated, and that's all many of them ever are, is talk.

 

Like I said, Nintendo isn't getting out of the home console business anytime soon. They've been in it longer than anyone else, they'll survive.

The market will decide if they want future consoles from Nintendo more than Nintendo themselves will. In Japan consoles are going extinct, in the US/Europe it doesn't look to me like Nintendo can hang with Sony/MS without a Wiimote type control interface miracle and I don't think they have any interest in competing directly.

With rising console game development costs the same 20-30 million Nintendo fans just aren't enough to make such a venture profitable indefinitely IMO.

There are other hardware pillars they could create though that are maybe not a traditional console per se, and also more toy-like devices they could perhaps get into. There was also that animation studio that they wanted to start about 9 years ago which I'm guessing got put on hold because of the success of the DS/Wii.