What lessons did Nintendo learn this gen you think?

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RolStoppable said:

curl-6 said:

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.

1. That's a clear demonstration that you don't know what that means.

2. Apparently you don't realize that the audience you speak of wants Nintendo to go third party.

3. Here you demonstrate your limited thinking. The reason why the dudebros are the lifeblood is because it's almost exclusively them who are catered to. And the reason why the GC and Wii U have been selling so low is because Nintendo is only making the games they want to make, so they aren't able to reach beyond Nintendo fanboys. The Wii U, just like the GC, leaves many people disinterested or even appalled, so they aren't buying.

Wii U and 3DS, for the most part, used established, outdated, and relatively inexpensive internal components. CPU, GPU, RAM, all withered tech. The extra costs came from the "lateral thinking" side of the equation; the tablet, for instance.

What would you suggest they do? You talk about "reaching beyond the Nintendo fanboys", but to who else would you have them reach, if not the dudebros? Children and the Wii crowd have moved on to smartphones.