How Can Nintendo Recapture Hardcore Audience with Wii U?

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the_dengle said:
They already have it, everyone who labels themselves hardcore gamers who don't own a Wii U already are nothing but a fraud.

I don't own a Wii U, but thankfully I also don't waste my time applying arbitrary labels to myself or others based on what games they do and do not play. Other than "fraud," obviously.

That's way too simplistic, if you're being serious. There are many reasons people who consider themselves gaming enthusiasts don't own every console every generation. The people who are frauds are those who don't buy a particular console for fanboyistic reasons. But those are not the only reasons people don't buy all console. I only buy one console per generation because I know that even with that one console I'll never get through playing all the games I want to play, so what's the point in owning a second console when all that will do is mean there's a bigger library of games I might want to play but never will. Then again I don't label myself as harcore either.

If Nintendo wants to make in roads into the over 25s market, a market they never really had so they can't REcapture it, then they need to take WiiU (or their next console) in a new direction.