Who should Nintendo aim their next console at?

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pokoko said:

Carl2291 said:

Ka-pi96 said:
They should go after the same market that PS/Xbox do. That market has stuck around and is now clearly the biggest available market. It would require some changes, but there's no reason they couldn't successfully do it.

Would be an absolutely idiotic idea*

The PS/Xbox market will not move away from PS/Xbox, while PS/Xbox get the games that the PS/Xbox market enjoy playing and 3rd party developers have problems working with Nintendo.

*They tried it with Wii U

I would assume that he means that this time Nintendo should actually give more than a half-ass, token effort.  The Wii U was both weak and expensive, which is basically death for any strategy.

Still, that's not going to work with the current leadership.  I have no faith that they could compete with Sony and Microsoft on even terms.  They'd spend most of the budget on a hardware gimmick again, along with buying a couple third-party games.  That only way Nintendo succeeds in that market again is with new people calling the shots.

If they stay with Iwata and the Sunshine Band then they might as well stick with the current Nintendo fanbase as a target, only this time with a box that's cheap enough to be a viable "second console" and is very attractive to the family market.  Nintendo games don't need a lot of power while still looking very good.

Either go cheap or go strong.  Getting stuck in the middle will entice no one.

I agree with that last part, "getting stuck in the middle will entice no one", that's exactly what Wii U's problem is. Nintendo tried to get both the casual and mainstream crowd, basically trying to be a jack of all trades but instead failed on both sides, making it a console to play traditional Nintendo franchises but with its price and software output, even many Nintendo fans are content with just playing on 3DS instead.