Miyamoto: We're Not Interested In High End Specs (Hardware)

[AbbathTheGrim]

bowserthedog said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

That wasn't necessary with the Wii. Nintendo accomplished that with the Wii. Nintendo tried to appeal to the tablet market with the WiiU but didn't work out.

But that was before smartphones and tablets took over. The opportunity for a casual dedicated gaming machine is now gone.  I hope i'm wrong because i'm a big nintendo fan but I just believe that it is gone. Nintendo's best bet is in creating something is a must own extra system for core gamers.

Oh, I completely get you. I can't rule out completely the possibility that someone can make something in a gaming platform that can attract people who would otherwise not care for videogames though. Nintendo proved that it can be done, whether it can be repeated or not is yet to be seen.

Definitely, appealing to casuals kind of takes away attention from the core fans, that is understandable.

The problem is that apparently Nintendo has hardcore fans as dedicated to gaming as any Micro and Sony hardcore fans, but they appear to be less in numbers and it would seem that, for Nintendo to ever achieve Wii numbers again, they would need to appeal to that fleeting market that, as you point out, may or may never return and could be lost forever, maybe. Of course, unless Nintendo manages to switch the tables drastically somehow and they find a way to seduce people who opt for Xbox and PlayStation over them.