Will a Nintendo home console ever reign on top again?

[Psyberius]

I for one honestly can't see it happening.

Let's look at their past...they had a monopoly. They enjoyed much better support for their console in a later generation.

With WII they found a segment in the market that nobody else even knew was there.

For them to do it again...for ANY console to do that again is very very hard to imagine.

Consoles are evolving to so much more than game machines.  Nintendo is going to have to evolve their console period if they expect to sell more than like twenty of them in the next generation.  The light user, cute idea players all have their Nintendo's now and that market is gone.  People want HD, they want apps, they want movies, they want access to TV show sites instead of paying for cable and satellite.  They don't even want to play guitars and drums anymore. :(


A bigger question to you is: What would have happened to Sony/PS3 if Microsoft hadn't been dumb with trying HD-DVD. A BLURAY in a 360 would have dramatically changed the landscape by 10's of millions in my opinion. For forever you could buy a PS3 with a BLURAY for cheaper than most solo BLURAY's, I have three friends who have never even played a single game on their PS3's as they came unbundled and they never felt the need to buy a game. They either watch movies directly or stream to it.