What lessons did Nintendo learn this gen you think?

[curl-6]

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.

Doesn't seem a great idea to me, hedging your bets on an audience that may not even exist. It worked ten years ago because there was a clear untapped audience, but where's the clear untapped audience today, and what makes you think Nintendo could tap them even if they are out there? Sounds to me like stakng everything on a miracle.