They've left the Wii U to die.

[JWeinCom]

Locknuts said:

JWeinCom said:
So... Nintendo should have done what Sony did for the PS3? By that, do you mean bleed money?

Sony lost TONS of money on the PS3. You could argue that it may have t the way Nintendo is built, they couldn't have done it. They're not an electronics company, they only make games, and they have a history of basically always making money. They couldn't endure years of the kinds of losses Sony took on the PS3.

I'm not arguing they did a good job with the Wii U, but they couldn't have done what Sony did.

At one point during the Wii gen, they were making $5 billion a year. I don't expect them to bleed money, just reinvest a decent portion of their profits.

What do you consider a decent amount?  Cause spending money without any hope of a return on that investment tends to get executives fired.  Nintendo has lasted this long by being a conservative company.  The money they made during the Wii generation keeps them alive when things like the Wii U happen.  Financially, they're better off using that money on things like NX, their mobile plans, Amiibo, etc.

As a fan, I see limited value in third party games.  So far, there have been precisely one third party game (Dead Rising 3) that I wanted to play, but couldn't play on my Wii U or last gen systems.  So, I don't think that would have been a good use of money.  To get a decent ROI, Nintendo would have to take charge in funding a TON of third party content, which would be difficult to arrange (companies aren't thrilled in giving up control of their IP, or going exclusive if they don't have to), and expensive.  

They made a lot of mistakes with the Wii U, but dumping more money into it wasn't going to help matters.