My Nintendo console this generation would have been something similar to the latest ps3 case, slightly larger with a cheap sliding door and top loading disc rather than an expensive less reliable mechanism.
It would probably have had 2GB of main memory for games and 256MB of GDDR memory for video plus 32MB cache to help optimise the use of slower main memory.
The cpu would be a dual core design but full cores running at something like 2.4ghz
The background operating system would be fully optimised and minimalised. To load the nintendo shop you would have to fully come out of any game and run the application. None of this concurrent rubbish which reduces memory available to games.
It would be powerful enough to run wii and gamecube games by emulation and those games would be loadable by original disc or the nintendo shop.
I would of used a gpu of about 800gflops performance and cpu equivilant to at least 2x the power of 360/ps3.
It would have a supplied tray for adding a sata 2.5 drive but no drive would be pre-fitted. A small amount of flash memory would be built in like 8GB. Same arrangemant as ps3 12GB.
The controller would be the main design target, something small and comfortable for all ages, great vibration features including the main pad and the triggers, decent analogue triggers.
The console would have the space for one expansion board which would be a VR expansion card that would add an additional gpu, cpu and memory card later on to enable VR use.
At the time of the VR card and visor launch a new console would be available capable of VR out of the box to the same standard.
Through out the launch I would of made free games available (N64, snes etc for download) so the sooner you buy the console the more free games you get with big bonus games available around holidays like christmas and easter etc. Taking advantage of Nintendo's past catalogue to help push hardware sales.
I would make later wii games dual compatible with the new console so those who buy those games already have available games for their new console when they upgrade. These would be mainly high res versions of the same games and would come on dvd rather than blue-ray.
The important difference with my console would have been multi-format games would have been easily superior to 360 and PS3 versions and the console could have come out earlier than the original wii u.
It would have launched in multiple colours, black, white, silver, red etc.
Each console would come with a welcome disc which includes hi-res versions of Mario Galaxy and Mario kart wii plus numerous graphic demos, playable demos and video of upcoming titles.
The retail price in the UK would have been £249. A easily realistic price for the hardware supplied. Inferior gpu hardware to xbone/ps4 but still far ahead of 360/ps3. About half-way house between ps3/360 and ps4/xbone in cpu performance and memory capacity.
The design of it would have the disc door in the middle with the main board one side and the board expansion and hard drive the other. The door would have a transparent window so you could see the disc spinning (oldschool).
Well it would have been my preference for a wii u console anyway and something that was actually competitive in performance.
