There is no market for Nintendo to make consoles to their 30-year-old fanboy demo. This group is too small to sustain a console, especially one that has rising development costs from the previous generation.
If that's the future of Nintendo in the console business, then there is no future for Nintendo in the console biz. They can't keep making consoles that sell only 15-20 million machines with only 5-6 games that sell decent just because "Gary who loved Super Mario World 20 years ago and gets giddy after every Zelda trailer" says so.
Nintendo fans basically want a new Nintendo console every 5 years, but the audience isn't growing at all (unless there's a Wiimote miracle) and they will want the next machine to be around the PS4 at least ... c'mon. Nintendo's making no money off such a proposition. They need to start making money off the Wii U, or its curtains for their desire to be in the console space IMO.
At least get the freaking kids market, if you can't even do that, then you've just failed completely. A new generation of kids should know not just Mario, but Fox, and Pitt, and Samus, and Lil' Mac, and Captain Olimar, just like the Avengers movies really pushed Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, etc. to a new generation of kids.
