What is the Nintendo NX going to do in order to be successful?

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Soundwave said:
To be honest unless they have a killer idea I'm not sure a Nintendo console can be successful in the modern market context.

They may want to focus first and foremost on the portable, and if there is a second home-only SKU, just make that more of a companion type product.

GameCube was $99 for like half its life cycle and it still only capped out at a rather mediocre 22 million install base. So I dunno if price alone is the solution.

I understand the concern regarding Gamecube but something that many people forget or ignore is that Nintendo was trying to compete directly against PS2/Xbox and for about 90% of its life the competitors were a mere $50 more with multimedia features and better 3rd party support. That plus Nintendo messing up with a lot of their own IP, no traditional Kirby, Donkey Kong or Star Fox, Mario Sunshine felt like a spinoff, Zelda went with a poorly received at the time artstyle. There was a lot of things going against Gamecube despite the low price.