Nintendo totally irrelevant? Xbox and PS duopoly?? (Home Consoles)

[Frequency]

Soundwave said:

Frequency said:
It isnt that microsoft and sony have third party support, more that third parties have customers support on microsoft and sony consoles.

Nintendo fans are inherantly stubborn when it comes to non-nintendo games and are perfectly willing to sit by and watch the good ship wiiu sink.

The highest rated launch games for wiiu were all third party, it had a great chance to repair charred bridges and get third party on board to make a more broadly appealing lineup, but the customers just arent there, and so third parties got up and left.

There's not really any incentive for Call of Duty players (for example) to switch to the Wii U though, so that was the problem there. 

I think Nintendo drank the Kool-Aid that if they had multiplats they could grab some of that Sony/MS demo, but that notion was about 2-3 years too late by 2012. 

They should have instead invested in some Western development studios to help them out (or at least financed some without buying a stake, ala Platinum Games and Next Level Games). I think they need to acknowledge now that basically third parties aren't going to help them, and even when they can no third party can afford to stick their neck out for Nintendo any more unless its for the 3DS in Japan. 

Any money nintendo spends on projectd that are not their own is wasted money, peopoe just wont buy it in meaningful enough numbers.

Unless it has nintendo on the box and one of their core franchise characters slapped in, in some way or another, you'll at best tempt a few of the less dedicated fanbase, bored with waiting on their holy grain, to bite.