Here's the issue with "it just needs games" ... yes sure it needs games ... but by "games" that means it needs the main line Call of Duty that CoD players actually want to play on (and Nintendo doesn't have the online community most CoD players want). It needs Final Fantasy XV. It needs MGSV. It needs BioShock Infinite. It needs GTAV. It needs Battlefield 4. It needs FIFA and NHL and Madden.
Just having Nintendo franchises isn't enough. My personal feeling too is if CoD/AC/Batman don't sell that great this holiday, even Ubi Soft and Activision will begin to bail on the platform, so dropping the price in 2014 does basically dick all. The few companies that are supporting Nintendo will want to see results this Christmas, not post-Mario Kart 8.
When you are asking people to pay $250-$350+ you are asking for "primary console money" ... that means you're asking for an amount where the audience (rightly so) is going to expect the system to be their main go-to console for all types of games.
$350 is not a "hey, but this as your secondary console for the occasional Mario/Zelda fix you get!" and it doesn't have the hook the original Wii did either.
THAT is the problem with the $350 price point. Even $300 is a problem. $200 is better, some people still will not bite at this price even with all the Nintendo IP there, but at least you might get some people to buy it as their secondary console.
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