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DaAndy on 13 December 2014
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In theory it sounds pretty nice, but it will not work.
- The 3rds for sure still would not support the next nintendo console evenly as the other consoles, even if it has the same architecture and same specs as PS5/XBtwo.
- The people still would not buy the 3rds games on a nintendo console even if it really would receive the best version (some advantage like PS4 -vs- XBone in this gen ... even though i think the difference is at some parts really non-existent and not even remotely worth mentioning)

But yes, I agree - it would be stupid to release some midgen-console e.g. in holiday season 2016.
The 3rds would have no interest in really developing for it because PS4+XBone will then together have an hardware base of something like 80Mio.
The PS5+XBtwo, released e.g. holiday season 2018 will have so much stronger hardware that the 3rds will still have no interest in developing for it.

The people will not all of a sudden buy the multigames (if they are being developed at all for a userbase of 0) on WiiU2 from 2016 onwards, because they maybe are a bit better than PS4/XBone version. They would just wait for PS5/XBtwo to release because they want a real generation leap, not only a half leap. If the difference then really is big from WiiU2 to PS5/XBtwo will not be important - people will tell themselves that it is big and that they need PS5/XBtwo and NOT WiiU2.

Sounds pretty much like "Nintendo is doomed V9000" and i really do NOT like it, as I am a nintendo fan since >20 years, but when trying to compete directly against MS and Sony, Nintendo will lose badly - see Gamecube.
The only advantage for WiiU2 compared to Gamecube is - in the meantime multiplat games are much more common.
I know at the moment its even worse than Gamecube, but i think WiiU will have sold better at the end of its life.

Nintendo needs their own market and needs to deliver games to the mass market which they want to play at "all" costs. If they could e.g. manage to completely get all JRPG stuff exclusively for their console, this would sell lots of consoles.