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Soundwave on 09 February 2015
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RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

I didn't cherry-pick the CPU/GPU/RAM, those are the only parts people really care about these days. It's all about the graphics. Wii U used withered processing hardware, then made it expensive with the lateral part, which nobody cared for.

You didn't really answer the question though; who should Nintendo go after? "Retired NES gamers" sounds like a mythical audience who in reality are just a mixture of casuals and non-gamers who could not be tempted back to consoles in sufficient numbers now that smartphones meet their needs.

curl, I have to give up on explaining lateral thinking with withered technology because you show no effort of understanding what it means.

I did answer your question, you just didn't like the answer. Nintendo should go after a mythical audience, for real. Turn back the clock ten years and people would say that there is nowhere to go for Nintendo because the core market is controlled by Sony and Microsoft while the people who are currently not buying consoles will definitely not buy consoles in the future. It's a good thing that Nintendo didn't believe in that back then, and it will be good for them if they don't believe in that now.

Yeah but there was an obvious play there - casual/non-gamers. 

That doesn't exist today. So what's left? Making games for pets? 

There is no magical untapped audience anymore. Every type of person from the person who virtually no ability to play games to the expert player has a multitude of readily available options made available to them. In terms of casuals they carry that around in their pocket, just seconds away from them when ever they feel the urge to scratch their gaming itch (which is maybe a handful of times a week). 

It's nice to believe in things like "lateral thinking" and "blue ocean" as some kind of dogma for gaurunteed success but it don't mean shit without an actual audience there behind them that isn't already being overserved by 10 other devices.