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cirrostratus on 19 January 2014
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Soundwave said:
cirrostratus said:
Soundwave said:

2015 - Nintendo Tablt, Android OS (customized heavily), affordable ($199.99), can play at home on TV with a seperate home dock. This will be the new Nintendo "family" machine. 

So your're suggesting they just drop the 3DS and dedicated handhelds in general? That's basically all that's keeping Nintendo in business right now, so why get rid of it and replace it with something that their may not even be as large of a market for. This route would also require more regular reiterations of the product, which means that games would quickly become outdated, taking away the evergreen nature of many Nintendo games.


They are going to have to adapt to how people's lifestyles have changed now, or they can become irrelevant. I think it's dawning on Iwata already. 

3DS has to be replaced at some point anyway, a tablet in 2015 can coexist with a 3DS for a couple of years with the 3DS being $99-$129 and severing the budget market for the last couple of years of its life cycle. 

Wii U's just been a disaster from the day 1 unveiling which was underwhelming. It's a giant miscalculation on Nintendo's part and no, Mario Kart isn't saving that trainwreck. 

The Wii U has been a trainwreck, but it would probably do more harm than good if they kill it too early: their customers (like myself) would immediatly distrust anything they say and certainly wouldn't buy any hardware from them any time soon. Nintendo can scrape by if their clever about how they handle the situation and try to make money off of selling low budget software on the Wii U. And while the 3DS needs replacing, doing it in 2015 would mean that it would have a life span of only 4 years. Nintendo will still be racking in the money then, so there is no need to replace it so soon. Even if you kept it on the market another two years, that would still leave it with a total lifespan of six years on the market which is still less than the DS was Nintendos handheld for. I just think you're trying to get them to change tactics to quickly.