3DS is cannibalizing Wii U

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curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

No one positions anything as a certain type of console. Consumers decide what the console is, companies can spin PR all they want. 

GameCube was the console you didn't want. Just like the Wii U is today. That's how consumers have looked at these machines and that's the feeling they have about them. 

Mario Kart ain't fixing this trainwreck, that's too much to ask one game to do. 

Who said one game would fix it? Not me. I said Kart + Smash + casual price point + dark epic Zelda.

It won't fix anything. They can have Zelda show her tits for ten minutes straight in the next Zelda game and that still won't fix Nintendo's issues because they are so deeply rooted. 

The console business has just changed and Nintendo hasn't changed with it, as such they aren't able to adapt to it. The had great success with one big gamble that really payed off in spades with motion control, but even there it was obvious they didn't really know what to do with it after a while as the PS3/360 sure enough started to outsell the Wii by time 2010 rolled around fairly consistently. 

Ironically that pandora's box that they opened with casual gaming might be a bigger threat to Nintendo than Sony/MS ever were, because Nintendo still always had a comfortable, profitable slice of the pie back then, even when PS1/PS2 dominated, but the iOS/Android boom has unquestionably stolen a lot of their thunder, not only the casual audience, but the knife that cuts even deeper -- its taking kids away from Nintendo, which I think cuts them so deep.