You are now THE President of NINTENDO, what now?

[Dr.EisDrachenJaeger]

superchunk said:
One of two options.

1) Create something to ignite mass consumer appeal similar to Wii Sports, Wii Fit and motion. Right now nothing on horizon is that because it can't be a clone of one of those, i.e. sports club or wii u fit with meter.

2) Get all 3rd party dev CEOs in one room and find out what it would take for them to fully support Nintendo hardware. Build that.

I can't fathom what Nintendo can do to create another #1 as the Nintendo core simply isn't large enough to keep the company afloat long-term and unlike handhelds they can't push the market. They need to more directly compete with MS. They need #2 option.

You might argue they tried with N64 and GC as they were as powerful or more than competition. Yet they also had serious flaws that pushed 3rd parties and other consumers away.

N64 had carts and Nintendo's bad relationships with 3rd parties. Consumers were fine with it, but 3rd parties were not.

GC had tiny discs and a child appearance. 3rd parties were still shy but the lack of real discs made it too difficult / costly and consumers were not ok with it.

Wii had consumers by a massive amount. But it was so far away from competition that 3rd parties simply wouldn't risk the investment to make tools for it and it eventually died early to rising competition.

Wii U had no consumer appeal no games no 3rd parties as competition simply did more of what they wanted. Wii U also to confusing as it still seemed like a Wii.

They need a Nintendo 7. It needs to have all that 3rd parties want in similar functionality to greatly reduce their costs for porting. It needs the consumer appeal in full functionality to drive a userbase to even gain a couple 3rd party exclusives (wii u actually didn't do too bad on this mostly). Finally adding that with Nintendo's unmatched IPs... pure win.

They need their first console with the newly combined portable/home console groups. Even if Nintendo matched XB1 power but undercut Sony price due to no Kinect or Gamepad then married that to a highly successful 3DS to give it the gamepad-like features (hell make it compatible with actual gamepad and sell it separately for $60)... that would do so much better IMO.

However, in the end it simply wouldn't matter. 3rd parties largely don't want to see Nintendo in hardware at all.

I agree, but I dont get the third parties flip flopping when it comes to the system hardware.

Nintendo wants to make the games they want to make, I dont think they'll alienate any third parties who understand that and it makes sense to them. They really need to put out software and keep doing that.