The hardcore abandoned Nintendo; Nintendo didn't abandon the hardcore

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Soundwave said:

bowserthedog said:

I don't think it is really about turning the wiiu around. It's about using the wiiu to continue to rebuild their reputation amounst dedicated gamers. Continue to release terrific games for the machine and add as many system features as they can. Would love to see wii-cheivements added as well as cross browser voice chat. Drop the price when they can. It's all about convincing core games who own an xbox one or PS4 to make the wiiu their second system. Make it cheap enough and have a huge lineup of incredible exclusives. Basically just keep doing what they are doing since they are well on the road to recover.

The wiiu was conceived as a half step system. One foot in the "wii" market and one foot in the "core market".  The casual is gone now for consoles. It's finished. With the next console they would have more succes with both feet into the "core market" when conceiving the console. Because that market is growing hugely.

I think owning two consoles is becoming passe too. Most people have a large backlog of games on just one console (even core gamers). 

Unless you're like 19 year old who can play games for 4-5 hours a day every day, most people just don't have the time. We're inundated with too many entertainment options these days, between Youtube, Netflix, PVRing ten different shows, having to watch the big game, etc. etc. I honestly don't know too many people who have the time to play through like even half of the acclaimed games per game. 

No i don't think it's becoming passe.   It's still very common for core gamers to have multiple consoles. There are fans of certain types of games that will buy whatever console they need to buy to play them.  Like a JPRG fan will end up having to own a wiiu for Xenoblade. Out in the real world I know very few console owners who only buy one system a generation and these are the guys who play 2 or 3 games a year not the dedicated gamers.

Nintendo will have an interesting choice to make next gen though. They can fully carry a console by themselves especially once fusion is in place. Do they focus on that and release a system which is a playstation 4.5 that can be sold at break even or close to it on day one?  This route will mean they will likely end up losing cross platform support eventually. Or do they compete againse ps5 and take some financial risk for a potential higher payoff.