Well if Nintendo can compete like Malstrom is saying lets see those 300,000 servers from them.
Lets see them get EA to give Wii U 50% of its development resources to compete against XB1/PS4/PC.
Lets see Wii U get just as many AAA third party games as the other two,.
Lets see Nintendo's online offering that puts Microsoft's to shame.
Lets see them make Wii U the go to console for Call of Duty, Fifa, Destiny, Titanfall, Battlefield, FIFA, etc.
Lets see them force retail to give all their best shelf space to Wii U.
Lets see the 500+ million dollar advertising campaign for Wii U.
Seriously Malstrom appears to have no understanding of how things have changed (the growing importance of online, development costs forcing developers to put their AAA console games on systems with similar specs, gaming being even more closely tied to social media, etc). If he realized any of that he would be see how Microsoft is in a much better position to compete than Nintendo in console gaming.
As for mentioning the declining dedicated gaming handheld market and Microsoft not having an offering in it, does anyone here really think anyone at Microsoft Redmond is losing any sleep over it considering Vita's sales. Does anyone here think that western third parties put the same importance in 3DS and Vita that they do in Xbox One and PS4?
The reason Microsoft has a higher standing with western third parties can be easily seen if a person looks at EA/Activision/Take Two/etc's financial reports and see how much money they're making off Xbox 360. Microsoft and Xbox gamers earned that standing in the industry among third parties regardless of how much it annoys Malstrom.
