Who should Nintendo aim their next console at?

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:
How am I the only person who thinks the 50 million or so 3DS owners isn't the most logical choice?

About half of the 3DS audience is from Japan, and the Japanese aren't into consoles anymore. 

Also 50 million 3DS' sold doesn't actually mean 50 million discreet users either. I own three 3DS units, my brother has two, a lot of families with kids buy more than one per household for each child but they often share the game cartridges. With a console though those parents would likely only buy one console and the kids all would have to share it. 

But you're right to the extent that I think Nintendo's next "console" will basically be just a way to play their handheld games on the television. So to that effect they will be targetted the same audience as it will effectively be the same library. 

About 32 million of those 3DS sales have come outside of Japan. And yes I know some people own multiple skus so that 32 might go down to 25 million or so, which is still a hell of alot more than the 6.5 million Wii U has sold outside of Japan.