What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

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Vena said:

Fusioncode said:
Design a machine built for 3rd party support. Then do everything you can to convince 3rd parties to come on board. And when that fails just throw money at them. Then keep throwing money until the problem goes away. 

They won't do any of those things, especially not throw money at them.

They won't even make their next console for the western 3rd party, they build their consoles for themselves first and foremost. They're going to absorb the WiiU into the next hardware itteration, either with a die shrunk new chip (doubtful, costly and not really worth while if they stick with RISC) or through an updated RISC chipset like ARM (Qual, nVidia) or PPC (AMD recently started a new contract on PPC development, I can only think of Nintendo...).

With the unified architecture they will be the largest producer of software all on their own, so the hardware will be built for themselves.

Yup. But they'll still have a problem in the West, just because they have a steady flow of Japanese IP games doesn't mean all their problems are solved. 

They need a partner from the West to help them. I think Disney/Marvel could be that ideal partner. They have ready made IP that could turn quickly into blockbusters and appeal to Western teenagers/adults (a demo Nintendo struggles with).

Heck, Disney even owns ESPN, they could use that to bring back Nintendo Sports titles if they decide to give EA the middle finger.