How Nintendo should launch the NX (if its a home console).

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

They were both half-assed attempts at retaining the "casual" audience while stealing away the "hardcore" audience which left it as being a device that catered to neither.

The Wii U is very much a casual-family system. This is Nintendo's own marketing for the system from day 1:

 

But being casual doesn't mean you're gaurunteed to have some new controller craze every five years either. Just because you impressed casuals once, doesn't mean you have their life long consumer loyalty either. Nintendo underestimated how quickly casuals get tired of something and move on to something else. 

Probbaly because it doesn't register in Nintendo's vocabulary. In Nintendo's "logic" when you make a hit game ... like Mario or Zelda or Pokemon, the IP should be successful for 10 ... 20 ... even 30 years. They didn't understand the concept that Wii Fit or Nintendogs or Brian Training would just fizzle out after 5 years or so. The concept of that was completely alien to them. 

Being casual doesn't mean u need to release a new controller craze every 5 years, casuals just want/need a controller that is easily accessible that they can fully understand after a few minutes of use, something the Wii U Gamepad isn't and the fact that it caused Wii U to launch $100 over the Wii sure didn't help either.

Casuals are also looking for simple yet fun games with new concepts, Wii's later years and Wii U's early years did not offer these, games like Splatoon & Mario Maker are a step in the right direction but too little, too late. Had Wii U launched at $250 with Splatoon & Mario Maker along with a much stronger ad campaign and a better software output consisting of new IP that targeted kids/females/families in addition to their tradtitional IP than they would very likely be in a much better situation, not Wii levels of course but much better than the current situation.