Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology - Nintendo's hardware strategy

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RolStoppable said:

Bias is the answer, seriously.

In the Iwata Asks for how the 3DS was made, they talk about how Nintendo always failed when they tried 3D. But they love 3D, so they went through with it anyway, rational business sense be damned. Similar story for the Wii U: People inside of Nintendo liked the GameCube and many hold the belief that the console only failed because of unfortunate circumstances. So just like 3D, the belief is that if the product is corrected, it will sell. Especially when coming off an all-time high popularity with the Wii and DS.

Virtual Boy and GameCube... such wonderful devices to model a product after! If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. :P

Yep, I said Nintendo is doooooooomed.