If you were President of Nintendo, what would you do?

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TheLastStarFighter said:

cusman said:
Nintendo President should first and foremost understand that if the Nintendo home console hardware cannot take ports of 8th gen games, then it automatically becomes 2nd or 3rd console for the few core gamers that would be up for having multiple consoles.

Majority of games that appeal to that "core" gamer market come from 3rd party and are multi-platform. Many of these are already absent from Wii U, and as support for PS3/X360 ports gets less, the Wii U will have even less chance of getting the ports of 8th gen developed games.

That will leave just Wii U exclusives, and without a sizeable install base the 3rd parties wont bother with anything other than cheap games, and Nintendo alone cannot make enough and certainly not servicing a wide taste of gamers.

Nintendo really seems to have missed a grand opportunity to capture the core and casual market with its 8th gen system.  If they had made and marketed their system similar to the others, their supperior 1st party content could have been the deciding factor.  As it stands, they could be battling with XBOne for leftovers.

If they had basically just released a more traditional "Super Wii" or "New NES" with a Wiimote + Pro Controller shell (cheap) and a fairly nice 800 GFLOP machine with 4GB of RAM.

They should have also spent a few bucks (since they made so much with the Wii) to hire a decent Western studio to make a big time new IP for them within the console's first 6-7 months on the market. If they had done that I firmly believe they'd be sitting relatively pretty right now at 12-15 million user install base. 

Be very wary of banking an entire console on a controller gimmick. Yes it worked with the Wii, but I can go to Vegas and hit a giant jackpot my first day there too, doesn't make that a sound long term financial strategy. And whatever you do NEVER bank on an expensive hardware gimmick.