This generation hasn't even started yet

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ioi said:

kirby007 said:

I can see Nintendo focus solely on a Nintendo Tablet in the future with connectivity options with television ( so basicly removing wii u console but keeping the controller )

Yeah. I said their biggest mistake was to assume those previous mega-hits will still work today but their second biggest is with their hardware. Most people have no interest in the 3D element of the 3DS (the 2DS is what the platform should always have been IMO) and with Wii U they know they need to do something to compete with tablets but don't really know what? Once they get it right and get the right software for Wii U (or some kind of successor / spinoff) and release some hardware-selling software then they may see some success again.

With both 3DS and Wii U, Nintendo released a new hardware element (3D and tablet) like they had the gen before (dua +l touch screen and motion control) but no software to show it off and make it a must-have. Until they can figure out the point of the Wii U tablet controller then nobody is going to buy it - simple as that! If they can, and convince the casual public why they need it like they did with motion controls - then they could turn things around enormously but at the moment that is looking unlikely...

They need the same approach as last gen but something that is innovative and new today instead of just recycling what was new 6-7 years ago.

I think it comes down to the simple fact that Nintendo got lucky with the Wii mote and Wii sports , then they believed that it's succes was simply down to Nintendo's innovation rather than as is often  the case when a new product becomes an unexpected success , it simply was the right thing at the right time and captured the publics attention.

  Quite often the people behind these type of succes stories believe they where firmly in control of those events and  believe that their new audience is there because of  them , or in Nintendo's case , Nintendo rather than the Wii itself , so instead of catering for and trying to keep this new audience going forward , they go looking for the next big thing and for them that's doubly hard since their success was built on not just the hardware  , but compelling software so we get 3D and the pad and things go back to pre Wii levels.