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se7en7thre3 on 14 February 2015
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Soundwave said:

Ultimately the mass market decides what direction they prefer by voting with their wallets.

And I think it's been largely shown the last 20 years that people overwhelmingly want a system that is more of a electronics device (rather than a toy/family aimed product ala the gaming scene in the 80s/early 90s) and has all the major third party support. We had this referendum during the PS2-GCN-XBox era, and people overwhelmingly chose Sony's approach.

The Wii is the only console ever to have mass market success for a few years without benefit of great third party support, and that was more of a flash in the pan, not a sustainable business model going forward (and if it was ever sustainable, Nintendo sure as heck doesn't know how to to do it, which renders it moot).

I don't think many casuals were upgrading their Wii ever, it didn't really matter what Nintendo did.

People have a fairly set idea of what they want in a console today, and you either provide that or your system is not going to sell past 20 million or so at best. Doesn't matter how many wonderful Mario or Zelda games it has.

I'm still shocked Nintendo went up against such a brick wall, far worse than Sony/MS with the casumobile market. I guess they were in denial about Wii's future as a brand and product overall. But now, Nintendo has no where to run, except back to its  foundation.   I wonder, when Iwata made this statement...

https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/nintendo-says-open-merger-acquisition-220715429.html

 In a talk with Japanese newspaper The Nikkei, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says he's open to mergers and acquisitions, a dramatic philosophical change for the company.

"We should abandon old assumptions about our businesses," he said. "We are considering M&As as an option. For this reason, we'll step up share buybacks." 

...if he was talking about mergers with companies like Panasonic.  The potential is great with these two. Nintendo seems like the missing link in panasonic's portfolio, and (unlike Sony, for ex.) they would not interfere with Nintendo's ideaology very much. Panasonic would obviously take care of the HW and give Nintendo and its devs a "bigger canvas" to create their magic w/o worrying about costs.  We saw a glimpse with the Panasonic Q (gamecube DVD player), but now they'd have blu ray, TVs and other products.