What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

[TheLastStarFighter]

Soundwave said:

KingdomHeartsFan said:

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Even if it was x86 based ... so what? Why is the average American/British/German kid going to buy the Nintendo console over the Sony or MS console where all their friends play? The Gamecube tried this approach and failed. 

No they didn't try this approach with the GC.  The GC was not easy for third parties to port games over to.  Having Nintendo exclusives and third party games all in one box would sell their next console.  

Your approach of making games based on movies will not do anything, there is already that stigma that movie based games are bad.  You don't even suggest how to make these games good, make them in house and cut development on their first party games?  Hire big, talented third party developers that would probably cost a fortune?

It was easy enough for the GameCube to have virtually all the same Western games as the PS2 and XBox did. GCN had Madden NFL, 007 Nightfire, Prince of Persia, Tony Hawk, Medal of Honor, NBA Street, SSX, Beyond Good & Evil, Timesplitters 2, NHL, etc. etc. All those games basically sold the worst on the GameCube anyway, third parties cannot get away from the fact that their games will sell less on Nintendo platforms because they have to compete with Nintendo's own IP. 

Nintendo fans just don't take to multiplats either. Wii U had multiplats it first year, no one bought any of them. 

GameCube had GTA and Final Fantasy?  If I had known this, I might have bought one. Oh wait, no I wouldn't have.  Because it was a silly looking purple box. Give up the "they tried it with GC". They didn't. Very few dudebro core gamers would touch anything purple with a handle.