Will a Nintendo home console ever reign on top again?

[wangjingwanjia]

I wanted to vote "Yes, it's possible", but the polls choices were too limited so I had to go with "Yes, no doubt about it.".

No doubt that Nintendo is my console of choice, always has been and most likely always will be. But my biggest concern with them is their strategy of being "different" from their competition.

Yes it worked really well with Wii, and I believe that they could easily have sold 50+ million consoles if they just released Wii 2, with new hardware but the same old machine. Released it first, a year or so before Sony/MS and put a $250 pricetag on it.

Tried to make the controllers better, improve or try out some new technology for motion controller and use that in their advertisement.

In my opinion if you don't have the hype around your product like Apple has with iPhone, Sony has with PS4 now and Nintendo had with Wii, is that you must be first on the market, have a really sweet pricetag, sign some great deals with a few third party devs and also put some of your best franchises out at the start.

If Nintendo really wanted to take back the core gamers and still keep the casuals the most simple strategy is what I have presented above.

Release Nintendo "Next" early(but not too early), put good hardware into the console so that it will be up to date(but doesn't have to be to the extreme), set an attractive price tag on the console and market it for gamers. And by my own wish, go back to use "standard/classic" controllers.

If they would have a one year head start, have a "normal" console and controller, attractive price and release-titles such as CoD, Battlefield, Zelda, Mario, Fifa, Madden, NBA, NHL and some other random games it would(should!) move consoles. If not, at least not Nintendo is to blame.

But I know that Nintendo won't go this path, I think they have even made some statement about "merging" their handheld and stationary console, in some way or the other, so of course the above suggestion by me won't happen.

If this handheld and stationary one-in-one will be successful or not I don't know. Most likely it will be more successful in Japan/Asia than Europe/NA. But if it can be used, with ease, as either or then I suppose it could be successful if people in general would think of it as the next DS.

The worst scenario however would be if this would cripple Nintendo's handheld sales, as they are by default the market leader.

I really don't want to think of the future of Nintendo, I'm more scared than curious to be completely honest. I never know what to expect of them.

As long as they deliver me new Zelda games I'm fine however.