Nintendo has to do something fast!!!

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Rogerioandrade said:

jetforcejiminy said:

Rogerioandrade said:
Is it really necessary for Nintendo to be #1 in home consoles ?

Droping the gamepad is out of the question. It would cause more confusion among consumers, and bring more problem right now. It´s not a solution.

we all saw what dropping kinect meant for the already ridiculously unintuitive xbone interface. basically dropping the kinect was like dropping all of their high-flown entertainment center ambitions. to drop the gamepad would, in some ways, be to drop the wii u itself.

usually this piece of received wisdom is doled out by the same people who say nintendo needs to put a f2p super mario galaxy on ios with microtransactions to make mario jump higher. i.e., people who actively want nintendo to fail.

Agreed. And while dropping Kinect lead to some drop in the price of the XboxOne, dropping the Gamepad is a completely different thing, because it´s exactly what differentiates WiiU from the others. Kinect was more like an add-on, while the Gamepad is part of the entire WiiU concept. People doesn´t seem to understand it.

I do think that most people, specially journalists -  who say things like "Nintendo should go mobile" are more interested in having their software on the devices they work on. People know the popularity of its franchises and want to take a part of the money they generate. See how well the last pokemon sold on launch? People want Nintendo´s software but don´t want to play them on Nintendo hardware. And when the day comes that Nintendo stop to make hardware, probably all the console market will be collapsed.  

Console market isn't as dependent on Nintendo hardware as you think. However if Sony were to leave, it would surely put a pretty big dent in home console sales.