Pachter: "There is no place for Nintendo hardware". Thoughts?

[yvanjean]

It would be nice to get away from having two consoles, especially when Nintendo is far inferior (wii & WiiU).

But there some of the magic or innovation that would be lost if Nintendo dint design they're own hardware. Especially in term of controllers and add-on. Let's say Nintendo were on Xbox, sure xbox one controller is great but the wii remote is far superior to the kinect and Microsoft would now control and push which peripheral Nintendo should use.

Nintendo is a corporation and known that it's much more profitable to use current cost efficient technologies then adapt newer more expensive future proof hardware. Nintendo business model is flawed and they have add major difficulty competing in later half of their hardware life cycle. Once their hardware isn't discount enough compare to the competition they can't compete.

Patcher only look at the problem of having too many consoles on the market, in order to fix this problem is either on console hardware manufacturer leave the market or merger. The last five year Nintendo hardware is struggling behind the competition. You can't just disregard the facts because we might be nintendo fan. The WiiU is an inferior console on the market priced at a premium because of the gamepad.

I've claim ever since the launch of the WiiU that main problem is the price of the console. Many have said that there have been multiple price cut without increase in Wiiu sales. While that is truth the problem still lies in the price, WiiU should of release with an MSRP of $249.99 and by now every WiiU bundle should have an MSRP of $199.99. Nintendo is using old cost saving technologies and can't justify the premium price!

There are many factors that have resulted in PS4 success but at the end of the day, Sony shocked the world with a new console with a MSRP of $399.99. Sony console is a premium console that release with a great value price.