What lessons did Nintendo learn this gen you think?

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RolStoppable said:

curl-6 said:

1. And yet Sony was able to make PS4 relatively up-to-date power wise without breaking the bank. Heck, even Nintendo has done so in the past with SNES, N64, GCN.

2. They might be left with no choice eventually, if they keep letting their userbase decline.

3. The dudebro demographic are the lifeblood of today's console market, as seen in PS4's explosive sales. If you don't sell to them, your sales will be limited.

1. Doesn't change that you've been wrong on that point. Someone can't still do something if they stopped doing said something.

2. How's that even an answer? Have you forgotten what your initial point was?

3. And if you do try to sell to them, there is not necessarily success, as seen in the Xbox One's continued struggles. Now factor in that Nintendo wouldn't just be going up against PlayStation, but also Xbox. Nevermind that the suggestion that dudebros would consider a Nintendo console as a possible option is simply laughable. But leaving that bias against Nintendo aside, people don't switch brands if they are satisfied. Therefore successfully catering to dudebros would require that both Sony and Microsoft mess up really badly. Any strategy that relies on someone else's failures to work is like playing the lottery because absolutely everything has to go your way.

1. Wii U and 3DS are withered technology.

2. Appealing to a Western audience could save them from  being forced to go third party.

3. Xbox One's sales are fine, much better than Wii U's. Once you remove the dudebros, there isn't enough of an audience left for a home console to do better than Gamecube numbers.