Should Nintendo's next console be a microconsole?

[zorg1000]

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

zorg1000 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

No thanks. The Vita TV and Ouya has proven that Micro-consoles that isn't Apple or Google sell laughably bad. They should just make a standard one

Do u really think Vita TV and Ouya are comparable to a Nintendo device sold at a low cost with strong software output?

Ouya is a device which had a good concept but overall the execution was poor and Vita TV is just a home version of an already failed handheld.

Well, think of the Gamecube... That thing costed $100 and had quite a great library of Nintendo games but that sold poorly which leads me to believe that Nintendo needs something more than just their games and a cheap console in order to sell very high. They either need something like the wii where the concept + marketing + execution came together so well that it sold like cray cray or a standard console where they need both their own games and a strong third party lineup so no, I don't think a Microconsole is the right way to go cause it wont do either

It's not just price but also price compared to competition. For most of its life, GC was only $50 cheaper than PS2/Xbox which both had greater support along with multimedia features such as DVD playback which was a huge deal back in the early 2000s. A $100-150 Nintendo microconsole would be in a completely different price range than a $300-400 Playstation/Xbox.